Does E-rice have a problem with sitemaps? Ever since changing to them, I keep getting errors in my map through google. Heres the error im getting…
URL timeout: robots.txt timeout
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.
Ive tried removing the robot.txt file and putting it back. But I keep getting the same error message. Ive also tried with a capital S but that didnt do anything either.
I opened a ticket when i first switched about some ftp problems and it took 2 days for a response. Hopefully I’ll get a faster response this time around.
Just as a data point. I use E-Rice and I don’t have a problem with the sitemap.
Mike
Edit: Well I should have checked before posting this. I went to the webmaster tools
and sure enough I have the same problem. It was working so something changed
either on Google or E-rice.
Yeah, I have not changed anything either and I seem to be getting the
same error. I would suspect a problem at Google. Be interesting to
see what Alan at E-Rice says about it.
I resubmitted my sitemap to google after fixing the robots.txt file and i just got the error again saying the robots file is timing out. Im starting to think its on googles end, least i hope so.
That is strange, you would think that if it was a global problem with google that there would be a lot of people posting on the internet, but google :roll: doesn’t find that :?