Leading whitespace
We’ve detected that your Sitemap file begins with whitespace. We’ve accepted the file, but you may want to remove the whitespace so that the file adheres to the XML standard.
Ive tried changing a few things, but nothing changes with that error
what is generating your sitemap? a program or are you doing it manually
The error is true, there is a space at the top of the file before the opening xml tag
I am currently trying out the gsitecreawler and it is up to 4378 URLs and counting! 8O I think it is trying to include the entire WU through this page: http://www.cavecountryweather.com/wx13.php I paused it for now until I can figure out how to have it stop at my page.
click “URL list” tab, click “Refresh Table” button,
highlight all your http://www.cavecountryweather.com/wx13.php URLs (you highlight many at once by click on the first one, then scroll to the last one, hold down the Shift key and click last one, they all turn yellow)
click the “Delete” button on the gsite crawler screen
now click (Re)Crawl - This Project, wait until the crawlers are idle again and then click “Refresh Table” button
Make sure all is well.
If you have the FTP settings setup in gsitecrawler you can now click “Generate - Google Sitemap-File” let it save (overwrite), then upload to FTP, then Submit to google all automatically.
Ok, I think i did it correctly. I created and uploaded a sitemap.xml file. I then changed my robots.txt file to read as follows…
User-agent: *
Disallow: /log
Disallow: /xxx http://www.evansville-weather.com/sitemap.xml
<meta name="description" content="See live weather from the Outer Hebrides in Scotland. Includes time lapse movies, forecasts and actual weather conditions updated every few seconds.">