XML SiteMap & Parse Errors


XML Sitemap is a very important WordPress Plugin, that you will not want to miss. Search Engines will fail to create a perfect sitemap for your website. The reason is that search engine crawler may not frequently crawl on your site and the crawl duration might not be enough to cover your entire website. To simply this issue , XML Sitemap Plugins has been developed. Not matter which plaatform are you in either WordPress or Drupal or even a normal HTML website, you need to have a Sitemap tool that can do the job better.

Some Features of XML Sitemaps

Sitemap Submission to Google

Sitemap Submission to Yahoo

Sitemap Submission to Bing

Sitemap Submission to ASK

Priority Selection for Sitemap

Exclusion of a Particular Category or Pages

Both Automatic and Manual Submission to Search Engines

Better listing on search engine

sitemap XML SiteMap & Parse Errors

Some Bugs on XML Sitemaps

“XML Parsing Error Not Well Formed”

Here is one of the problem that I had for a long time but , just now noticed it. The sitemap.xml file failed to load , with the above given error description. The reason for this turned out to be my .htaccess file. There were few privileges that conflicted with the Google Sitemap Plugin, Removing these lines, fixed the XML problem.

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27 Responses

  1. Rajesh Patel says:

    google xml sitemap plugin is vry heavy on sebsite servsr. 4 using it we must hve a vps..

  2. I already use this great plugin and it works wonders!

  3. Abhi says:

    But still some times it suffers from errors.

  4. Ramkumar says:

    Hope you have solved them mate :)

  5. Ramkumar says:

    Yeah it happens, perhaps if the permission is set right , it can run through without any error for the rest of the course.

  6. V8 Supercars says:

    Google love sitemaps, so avoid having errors with them.

  7. Ankit says:

    You know what.. Since I launched my blogs I never used any sitemap ;-P. Seems like they are good for SEO and I should give them atleast a try. :)

  8. MostlyBlog says:

    good information ram, XML SiteMap plugin is most important for any blogger..

  9. TechChunks says:

    Good for me that my xml sitemap page is free from any parse errors.

  10. TechChunks says:

    Good for me that my xml sitemap page is free from any parse errors.

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