Children in this Sitemap index Warnings
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Hi,
I have just submitted a sitmap for one website. But I am getting this warning:
Number of children in this Sitemap index 3
Sitemap contains urls which are blocked by robots.txt.Sitemap: www.zemtube.com/videoscategory-sitemap.xmlValue: http://www.zemtube.com/videoscategory/exclusive/www.zemtube.com/videoscategory-sitemap.xmlValue: http://www.zemtube.com/videoscategory/featured/www.zemtube.com/videoscategory-sitemap.xmlValue: http://www.zemtube.com/videoscategory/other/It is a wordpress website and the robots.txt file is:# Exclude Files From All Robots:User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /tag/End robots.txt file#I have also tried adding this to the robots.txtSitemap: http://www.zemtube.com/sitemap_index.xmlWebmaster-Tools-Sitemaps-httpwww.zemtube.com_.pdf
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Hello Robert,
Thank you very much for your response. Can you please tell me which 5 urls you mentioned above and which 3 of them are returning 404 ?
Screen shots of robots.txt and seo plugins are attached. Below is text of .htaccess
BEGIN WordPressRewriteEngine OnRewriteBase /RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-fRewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-dRewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress
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knockmyheart,
You are using Yoast so this is likely a setting you have wrong in xml sitemaps portion under SEO on Dashboard. Don't add anything as the plug in will handle if you just set it correctly. I have attached a scrn sht of one I have open and want to know if yours looks like this?
You have 5 urls of which the above 3 return 404 response codes. the other two resolve to the url. So, we just need to know what you have done that is blocking these. This is likely a setting you have made in error.
Shoot me a screen shot of what you are showing in robots.txt and .htaccess from Yoast and any other changes you made.
I will try to assist.
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