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Pantelis Sopasakis
Pantelis Sopasakis

Reputation: 1902

Google Sitemaps Puzzle

I'm trying to submit a sitemap for a web site to Google Webtools but I'm getting a very strange error related to the domain name. First of all, I submitted the sitemap as an RSS document which I believe is valid (Check here).

I have two issues. A minor one is that the response carries the header "Content-Type: application/rss+xml; charset=utf-8" but Webtool displays a "Type: ?" message.

Problem - Screenshot

Second, and most important, is that Web Tool returns an error with the message "
General HTTP error: Domain name not found". However, I am able to resolve the domain name (http://vlab.mooo.info) and the name has been registered months ago, so there shouldn't be a DNS problem.

$ resolveip vlab.mooo.info
IP address of vlab.mooo.info is X.Y.Z.W

I can't really reach a conclusion: Is there some DNS issue I can't identify? Is there some problem with the syntax of my RSS document? Or something else?

Update 1: I did something even simpler! I uploaded a simplistic sitemap.xml file on http://vlab.mooo.info/sitemap.xml. The result is exactly the same. Webtool claims that the domain name cannot be found :S

Update 2: Here is yet another error I get from the web crawler:

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 484

Answers (1)

Scriptor
Scriptor

Reputation: 1125

Upload a robots.txt with the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow:

And let the google webmaster tools open it, lets see if it can access that file. Does your google-analytics account work without any issues?

Normally when adding a new domain to google webmaster tools it cant take up to 48 hours to fully work.

Oh and your feed isn't totally valid. Remember the w3c services, also for feeds :) http://validator.w3.org/feed/

http://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvlab.mooo.info%2Frss%2Ffeed%2F

Upvotes: 1

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