Sitemap 404 error
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I have generated a .xml sitemap of the site www.ihc.co.uk. The sitemap generated seems all fine, however when submitting to webmaster tools, it is returning a 404 error? anyone experienced this before. deleted and re-done the process. Tried different xml sitemap generators and even cleared cache along the way.
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Hi,
Webmaster tools will normally tell you what the problem is if you click through to the details. I've also tried to access it and it seems fine. I've used a couple of different useragents on websniffer: http://web-sniffer.net/ and I've checked robots.txt for anything funny. All looks good.
My advice would be to try and fetch as Googlebot in WMT - if that works, I wouldn't worry about it. You could also check the server logs to see what the response code is when Googlebot requests the sitemap.
I hope this helps, seems like a bug to me.
Craig
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