solved empty sitemap?

Clay Gordon
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
9 years ago
733 posts
Now that the basics are done, I am updating the site for Google Webmaster tools.

Google said there was no sitemap though I have had the sitemap generator module up and running since day one more or less (2 months?).

I looked via FTP and there was no sitemap.xml in root.

I went to the URL https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap.xml

The sitemap was empty:

<sitemapindex> </sitemapindex>

So I ran the tool manually. The module report says that it updated over 8000 profile pages. In under 10 seconds? Not one other type of page.

Sitemap now consists of about a dozen entries that look like the following, just timestamps:

<sitemap>
  <loc>https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap/sitemap1.xml</loc>
  <lastmod>2015-02-28T11:54:31-05:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>

Still no visible sitemap.xml file in root.


updated by @claygordon: 04/16/15 12:39:57PM
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,148 posts
There won't be a sitemap.xml visible in the root - it's handled as a module view by mod_rewrite. You can see it working:

https://www.thechocolatelife.com/sitemap.xml

So you're fine.


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derrickhand300
@derrickhand300
9 years ago
1,353 posts
I have added a small link before in the bottom of my footer- just so I knew Google was finding it...

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