Paz
08-20-2006, 05:16 PM
Hi,
We've already talked about a possible Google sitemap penalty in another thread:
http://forums.digital-m.co.za/showthread.php?t=126
While it's true there were bugs at the start of the service, these have been largely ironed out by Google as far as I'm aware.
I'm writing though because a forum member, Datagg, was having problems getting his site indexed in Google that turned out to be a due to a Google sitemap issue.
The thing is, it wasn't Google's fault or any sort of penalty; it was in fact software that was generating a defective sitemap. Instead of a link to "SomePage.html", the software was converting everything to lower case viz "somepage.html", which will generate a 404 Not Found error on a Linux based server because urls are case-sensitive.
So I can guess we can say that not all Google sitemap "penalties" are of Google's making!
But in any case, a big thanks to Dan for sharing that info with us!!
Cheers,
Paz.
We've already talked about a possible Google sitemap penalty in another thread:
http://forums.digital-m.co.za/showthread.php?t=126
While it's true there were bugs at the start of the service, these have been largely ironed out by Google as far as I'm aware.
I'm writing though because a forum member, Datagg, was having problems getting his site indexed in Google that turned out to be a due to a Google sitemap issue.
The thing is, it wasn't Google's fault or any sort of penalty; it was in fact software that was generating a defective sitemap. Instead of a link to "SomePage.html", the software was converting everything to lower case viz "somepage.html", which will generate a 404 Not Found error on a Linux based server because urls are case-sensitive.
So I can guess we can say that not all Google sitemap "penalties" are of Google's making!
But in any case, a big thanks to Dan for sharing that info with us!!
Cheers,
Paz.