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More options May 7, 8:39 pm

From: cristina

Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 17:39:03 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Wed, May 7 2008 8:39 pm

Subject: Re: Very simple sitemap - keep getting 'unsupported' error from Google? Cristina help!

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Hi,
You need the XML declaration
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
to be at start of file.

The error that I am getting now with
http://www.fordmuscle.com/sitemap_test3.xml
is that the XML declaration
is not at the start of the first line,
there is a BOM (byte-order mark)
and an empty character before it,
you need the XML declaration to be at start of file.

Cristina.

On May 7, 9:03 pm, 67stang wrote:

> Cristina
> Thanks for the reply. I am able to see the sitemap in IE but not in
> Firefox - that is where I get the "unexpected T_STRING" error as
> reported by your HTTP response script.

> What is that error, how can I remove it? I just assumed it was some
> error due to Firefox's inability to open xml pages?
> thanks

> On May 7, 10:46 am, cristina wrote:

> > I get only an error message, not a sitemap, forhttp://www.fordmuscle.com/sitemap_test3.xml

> > Did you look at the sitemap URL from a browser?

> > You can see the error message in a browser, or if
> > you select the GET option for your sitemap URL in
> > my simple HTTP response viewerhttp://www.asymptoticdesign.com/aux/header_etal.cgi

> > Cristina.

> > On May 7, 6:22 pm, 67stang wrote:

> > >http://www.fordmuscle.com/sitemap_test3.xml

> > > I'm at my wits end. Google has recently been rejecting our sitemap due
> > > to "unsupported file format." Usually our sitemap is server generated
> > > and in gz format since it is about 12MB in size.

> > > However, to troubleshoot I have created a very basic 1 URL sitemap
> > > using the header that Google recommends in their sitemap faq. This is
> > > also being rejected. Would someone mind looking at this and telling me
> > > what may be wrong:

> > >http://www.fordmuscle.com/sitemap_test3.xml

> > > Thank you

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