Google webmaster tool detects errors in sitemap? - sitemap

Question

I have a sitemap that looks like this :
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/geo/schemas/sitemap/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Edit</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Faq</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Support</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/AboutMyApp</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/News</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Cookies</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=283</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=284</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=285</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=286</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=294</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-28</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
And this is my Robo.txt :
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: <http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Sitemap/>
The problem is that in Google Webmaster tool I get the following errors :
1
Warning
Invalid XML-tagg
This tag could not be identifyed.
**Problems :** 6
Tag: url
**Row :** 7
Tag: url
13
Tag: url
**Row :** 19
2
Warning
Webadress blocked by robots.txt.
Sitemap contains webadresses that is blocked by robots.txt.
**Problems :** 12
Value : http://www.MySite.se
Value: http://www.MySite.se/Ad/Detail?id=283
Value: http://www.MySite.se/Ad/Detail?id=284
Why? I have constructed the sitemap according to guides on internet?

Answer 1

OK, the <url> tags are all over the place. Everything from the opening <loc> tag to the closing </priority> tag for each website page must be enclosed within a set of <url> tags. See amended code below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Edit</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Faq</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Support</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/AboutMyApp</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/News</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Site/Cookies</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=283</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=284</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=285</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=286</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-26</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Detail?id=294</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-28</lastmod>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
</urlset>
Just to tidy up your robots.txt file, make it look as below. Make sure the Sitemap declaration links to the location of your sitemap.xml file:
User-agent: *
Sitemap: http://point-this-to-your-sitemap.xml
There's also no need for an empty Disallow declaration.
This is the basic structure I follow for the websites that I develop, so it should be fine!

Answer 2

Looking at the beginning of your file, you seems to have a problem with XML tags, you seem to have forgotten a after the first bloc. You have :
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/geo/schemas/sitemap/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Edit</loc>
[...]
And you should have :
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:geo="http://www.google.com/geo/schemas/sitemap/1.0">
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se</loc>
<lastmod>2012-06-29</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>1.0</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://www.MyApp.se/Ad/Edit</loc>
[...]
I think you have the same problem somewhere else in your code. You could try to use an XML editor to verify.