WP Plugins | Google Sitemap plugin

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1. How can I unblock googlebot? getting hundreds of 404 crawl errors. Can you help me?
   214-435-1386

   • Our plugin doesn’t block any bots. It is adding ‘sitemap’ file to the website root and adding string with this file to the robots.txt.

2. Hi My site is updated daily but the site map is set to frequency monthly how do I set it to daily please.

   Regards

   Sharon

   • You can update sitemap manually after adding content every day and select daily sitemap updating in the google acount settings.

3. Does this plugin automaticaly update the sitemap to include new pages and posts? Or is this done manually..

   • This can be done manually.

4. Even though I have the pages unchecked the plugin still adds the pages to the sitemap. How may I prevent this?

   • Have you re-generated the sitemap then? This should be done manually.

5. I have installed the plugin, but there is no sitemap generated. It comes up with a 404 error. I have used the same plugin on a different wordpress site without problem. How can this be fixed?

   • Hello Christiane,

     Our plugin should generate the doc sitemap.xml to the root of your website. Do you have this doc? When you get to the admin panel on the plugin page do you get the message that sitemap.xml generated or any errors?

6. Hi, May i know with the webmaster tools at the bottom of the page, if i link it to webmaster and i delete site from webmaster account, will my contents and pages disappear? My web not able to display now. kindly advise any relation between this two. Many Thanks!

   • Hello Cindy,

     Could you please provide more detailed description of your problem? What exactly do you want to do and why should the pages disappear?

7. I’ve submitted my sitemap but Webmaster Development tools for Google tells me that the robot.txt is blocking the bot from crawling the site. I don’t see where it’s blocking anything but the admin and other non-content related data. Help? My client is losing ground with his ranking since we went to WordPress.

   • Hello Cindy,

     Please send to us the content of robot.txt file.

8. Google Webmasters Tools shows that the sitemap.xml is now accepted, however it also says that robot.txt (which was generated by your plugin) is preventing googlebots from accessing the home page.

   This is the result I get when I google “motorcycle tours”:

   Ayres Adventures Motorcycle Tours
   http://www.ayresadventures.com/
   A description for this result is not available because of this site’s robots.txt – learn more.
   You visited this page.

   This is what google webmasters tools says: “1
   Warnings
   Url blocked by robots.txt.
   Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt. ”

   This includes https://www.ayresadventures.com/, and numerous other pages that are not listed in the sitemap.xml.

   Please help? Thanks! Cindy

   • Hello Cindy,

     Please send to us a code of the file Robots.txt

     Waiting for your reply.

9. What username and password is being asked for by this plugin? IS it the google account number? Is it my website administrator password and user name? I am completely lost. It keeps telling me my username and password do not match and I am lsot as to which sername and password it wants!

   • Hello Roy,

     Please find the string with words “login and password from google webmaster tools account” over the login form.
     You should insert this information to the form, and plugin will automatically add the sitemap file to your google webmaster tools.

     Kind regards

     • I have the problem that when I type in my Google acc and password, it tells me that I have wrong acc or password.
       Then on returning to the form my 8 digit password is about 16 digits worth… so it is filling in something that I did not type

       • Hello Mark,

         We are fixing this problem now.

         Kind regards

10. How do I prevent a specific page from being dynamically added to the sitemap without manually editing the sitemap.xml file?

    • Hello Brian,

      When you update page or post, they dynamically added to the sitemap. We can create the functional of exceptions pages or posts from sitemap, but this is a paid service.

      Kind regards

11. I have installed this plugin on a multisite (3 sites). Even though I have activated the plugin at the site level (not network activated), only one sitemap and one robots file results. I set up the first site fine, but when I set up the second it overwrote the first, and when I set up the third it overwrote the first and second. Right now all 3 sites’ sitemaps show the pages of the third site. Is there a solution?

    • Hello Matt,

      As multisite installation has one root folder, then the file sitemap will be one and robots.txt also will be one. It is the main disadvantage of multisite installation.
      You just can rename files manually and add them to your analytics accounts to each site its sitemap URL.

      Kind regards

12. I get a blank error page while submitting my google account e-mailadress and password in the plugin’s fields. Now this blank page with the little error message is the only thing people see when they go to the site..the same in the backend. I can’t deactivate the plugin in order to get back to the site online.
    Can you please help me?

    • hello Erna,

      You can deactivate plugin throught ftp or cpanel, you should rename the folder with plugin.

      Kind regards

13. Is there anyway to edit the sitemap? Because a couple of pages, I don’t want them there. Namely the Thank You page after a form submission.

    • Hello Rico,

      You can open the file in the text editor and remove the unnecessary lines manually.

      Kind regards

14. I am getting an error in WMT. An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting. Any idea?

    • Hello Brad,

      Please send us an example of xml file, which the plugin created.

      Kind regards

15. I just installed this plugin, and go to settings page, click the generate sitemap check-box, click ” save settings ” and it says
    “Your sitemap file was created in the root directory of the site. Options saved.”

    However, checking the root of my site, shows it is not actually there.

    did an updatedb, followed by locate sitemap.xml wich tells me sitemap.xml is not on the system anywhere. It would appear your plugin doesn’t actually check if sitemap.xml is created or not, it just says ” success ” if no errors are reported back to it.

    • Hello Markuz,

      Please make sure that check exactly the WordPress root (the wordpress can be placed not in the root, it can be placed in the subfolder, then you should find sitemap in the subfolder).

      Kind regards

16. We think we fixed the problem. I created a blank file named sitemap.xml and set its permissions to 777 then manually refreshed the sitemap using this app.

    This did then create the sitemap, but I also told it to submit it to google webmaster tools and I got a message that it was not submitted.

    Also, how do I set the frequency of the submissions?

17. Hello Paul,

    Please provide an access to admin area, so that we could check what is wrong there.

    Kind regards