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Hi Frederico, On the google Sitemaps Errors help page, they include the following information: "You should also check that the URLs all begin with the same domain as your Sitemap location. For instance, if your Sitemap is listed under http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml, the following URLs are not valid for that Sitemap: http://www.google.com — it's in the google.com domain rather than the example.com domain http://example.com/ — it's missing the initial www www.example.com/ — it's missing the protocol (http), and will generate an Invalid URL warning https://www.example.com/ — it's using a different protocol (https rather than http) Any URLs in the Sitemap that are not denied are processed normally." This leads me to understand that Google don't want you to put http urls in an https sitemap and also vice-versa. What makes you believe otherwise?? Hoping to get to the bottom of this - thanks for the ongoing feedback

Hi Federico, Thanks for taking the time to check out the site. I understand that there are hundreds of factors that come into play when looking at search ranking. It's just frustrating that we've pretty much followed all the instructions laid out on SEO Moz but don't seem to be getting the results - the only reason I can see why this might be is because of something related to our homepage under SSL (the redirect, the sitemap, or something simple missing in the structure). I have analyzed our competitors and I cannot see why we are not getting improvements compared to what they are doing. When choosing an SEO professional, how can we be sure that they will be able to diagnose the issue we are having as nobody so far has been able to pinpoint the issue? -G

Thanks for taking a look anyway Chris. Does anybody else have any suggestions on what might be going on here? Cheers, Greg