Thread: Google sitemap

All of a sudden in Google webmaster tools I started receiving errors in my google sitemap. The error I'm receiving is "Incorrect namespace
Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace." Has anyone seen this before?

Nothing has change in my sitemap.

Which version of the software are you on? Can you invoke http://yoursite.com/googleindex.aspx fine?

We have just experience the same issue on two sites. Both are getting the following error:

Incorrect namespace
Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace.

This has only happened within the last 2 weeks. Has google changed the requirements?

Any help appreciated.

Cheers

For info the sitemap is located here:

http://www.effortlessskin.com/googleindex.aspx

I had the same problem
seems like it changed recently

I changed the googleindex.aspx to
Response.Write("<sitemapindex xmlns=\"http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9\">");
it was 0.84 but this did not work either

also tried
Response.Write("<sitemapindex xmlns=\"http://www.google.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9\">");
but this did not work either



found that info here
http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=35738

any ideas will help

We aren't aware of this. It should work just fine if you can access http://www.yourdomain.com/googleindex.aspx without any issue. Can you submit this to support to take a look? Thanks

I had the same problem (using ver. 8). I updated this app. config: GoogleSiteMap.Xmlns to this value: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9

after that, I resubmitted the site map and it worked.

Chiming in with a "me too" here (v8). Starting to see sitemap errors as described. I haven't tried the change suggested by superglorious yet.

same issue. site maps started breaking a few days ago. says it's indexing urls still but i have a TON of errors. tried changing to 0.9 but did not help as far as i can tell.

ML 8.0.1.2/8.0.1.2

We've got one of our devs looking into this here. It looks like Google did an update, but this is still working for a lot of folks so tracking it down is a little odd. We'll get an update out if it turns out to be necessary.

I tried superglorious's (post above here) idea and our site is almost thru
the process with out any errors its been going for about 5 hrs
fyi we are running ver ML 9.0.1.3/9.0.1.2

this is our specific error
googleentity.aspx?entityname=Category&entityid=791
Sitemap May 17, 2010

Incorrect namespace
Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace

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updated this app. config: GoogleSiteMap.Xmlns to this value: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9

Tried doing this in the googleindex.aspx and that did not work
nothing but errors

will post the results when finished

Originally Posted by ohmydude_ML

same issue. site maps started breaking a few days ago. says it's indexing urls still but i have a TON of errors. tried changing to 0.9 but did not help as far as i can tell.

ML 8.0.1.2/8.0.1.2

Did you try clicking on the site map and making sure the entities we resubmitted? When I first made the change, I resubmitted the entire sitemap, however I still got the error. When I clicked on the map I saw a list of the entities and saw which ones had errors. I resubmitted the entities with the errors. I did this gradually and resubmitted the smaller ones first.
It's been a little under a week since I made the change (I did this for my 2nd site), and so far the sitemaps are fine.

I'm also using: ML 8.0.1.2/8.0.1.2

Thanks Scott,

For info version is 8.0.1.2

Will you post fix to this thread?

Cheers

We'll have to see what it ends up being, that'll likely be a file patch we'll have to provide through support. We'll see what we come up with.

Results from earlier post

Well after about 20 hours it finished with no errors

format URLS in sitemap
Sitemap Index Total: 10,355, Indexed: 3

only thing i dont know is why index is 3
and the 3 are from googletopics.aspx

any input would help

Thought I would chime in with my observations:
I have version ML 8.0.1.2.
googleindex.aspx returns
sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"

googleentity.aspx returns
urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/1.0"

googletopics.aspx returns
urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/1.0"

Only googleentity and googletopics seem to be using the AppConfig GoogleSiteMap.Xmlns. From what I have read on the Google help site they should all be using:
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"

I do not have the source code and cannot fix googleindex. I hope they post fix soon.
I updated the AppConfig. I am not sure how long I should give Goolge to update.

Can confirm it started on May 10, and as previously stated it needs to be changed to http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 in the app config and googleindex.aspx.cs

This has been discussed internally here with our dev team, give us a bit of time to investigate. If there are necessary updates, will definitely let you know. Thanks for the patience.

Same problem. Posted support request.

Here's how you can fix this, open {root}/googleindex.aspx.cs file.

from:

Code:

Response.Write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
Response.Write("<sitemapindex xmlns=\"http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84\">");

*the url http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 seemed to be just a BETA version only.

change to:

Code:

Response.Write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
Response.Write("<sitemapindex xmlns=\"http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9\">");

Any idea how us ChannelAdvisor challenged folks can fix this? I have ftp access to the site, but am not allowed to do anything with this file. Should I just open a ticket with them? Probably.

Anyway, just thought I would ask. Thanks folks, this forum is always such a great resource!

--Joe

Originally Posted by AspDotNetStorefront Staff - Alfred

Here's how you can fix this, open {root}/googleindex.aspx.cs file.

from:

Code:

Response.Write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
Response.Write("<sitemapindex xmlns=\"http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84\">");

*the url http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84 seemed to be just a BETA version only.

change to:

Code:

Response.Write("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
Response.Write("<sitemapindex xmlns=\"http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9\">");

You'll need to contact CA to have them update that for you, yes. We should have this in the next release, so whenever CA goes around and upgrades all their sites it'll be taken care of.

We are having the same issue and this fix doesn't appear to have worked. We're using version 8.0.1.2. Any ideas? Thanks.

Please send this to support and will take a look. thanks

I figured out the issue. You must also make a change to the appconfig GoogleSiteMap.Xmlns.l