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Hi Cyrus, Thank you for your note and my apologies for delay in response. The indexation number is from Google Webmaster Tools. The two are identical and I've tested other XML sitemap files that are in GZ format that opened fine in the browser without unzipping them or prompting a DL. The sitemaps were uploaded to GWT as the .gz files only since we have many pages to upload. I'll check with our Dev Team regarding the XML parsing error. Please let me know what other areas we need to look into based my answers to your questions. Thank you for your help, I greatly appreciate it!

Hi Cyrus, Thanks for your note. So, if the subsequent links are not indexed by Google (via site command) would that be a sure way to know that the links are not getting followed through by Google? Here's a sample: http://search.veer.com/food is indexed and in the cache version you can see the image links and the text links below. However in the text version the same links are not visible. Now, I did a site command on the first image - http://marketplace.veer.com/stock-photo/Man-shopping-in-vegetable-department-FAN9018482?slot=01&pg=1&skeywords=search&stermids=1115 and http://marketplace.veer.com/stock-photo/Man-shopping-in-vegetable-department-FAN9018482 to ensure that all possible URL variations are covered. It looks like both links are not indexed. This leads to a conclusion that the links are not getting followed. Please let me know if you agree. Thanks!