Submitting a new sitemap index file. Only one file is getting read. What is the error?

[mm916157]

Hi community,

I am working to submit a new a new sitemap index files, where about 5 50,000 sku files will be uploaded. Webmasters is reporting that only 50k skus have been submitted.

Google Webmasters is accepting the index, however only the first file is getting read. I have 2 errors and need to know if this is the reason that the multiple files are not getting uploaded.

Errors:

| 1 |   | Warnings | Invalid XML: too many tags | Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmi |

| 2 |   | Warnings | Incorrect namespace | Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace. | 1 |

Here is the url I am submitting: http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-sitemap-index.xml

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[TakeshiYoung]

Try changing the first line of your index file to:

<sitemapindex xmlns="http: www.sitemaps.org="" schemas="" sitemap="" 0.9"=""></sitemapindex xmlns="http:>

That should get rid of the second warning. For the first warning, you are not using enough <sitemap>tags, you need to encapsulate each of the <loc>tags in one, so your sitemap should look like:</loc></sitemap>

<sitemapindex xmlns="http: www.sitemaps.org="" schemas="" sitemap="" 0.9"=""></sitemapindex xmlns="http:><sitemap></sitemap>http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-products01.xml.gz<sitemap></sitemap>http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-products02.xml.gz<sitemap></sitemap>http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-brands01.xml.gz<sitemap></sitemap>http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-categories01.xml.gz<sitemap></sitemap>http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-content-pages01.xml.gz<sitemap></sitemap>http://www.westmarine.com/sitemap/wm-commerce-pages01.xml.gz

[TakeshiYoung]

The forum is butchering my formatting, but I hope you get the idea.

[mm916157]

thank you,

I grabbed this and put into a text file for my developer to see and it and have made sense of your corrections.