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#1 2022-06-30 09:57:41
- Gallex
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- Registered: 2006-10-08
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Google Search Console and sitemap
hi!
submitted sitemap on search console and get error notice:
An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting.
Examples
Line 13
Parent tag: url
Tag: lastmodmy template:
<txp:header name="Content-Type" value="application/xml; charset=utf-8" />
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url><loc><txp:site_url /></loc></url>
<txp:section_list exclude="sitemap,muu,various,test,otsing" break="">
<url><loc><txp:site_url /><txp:section />/</loc></url>
</txp:section_list>
<txp:article_custom section="minust,maalid,blogi" break="url" wraptag="" limit="9999">
<loc><txp:permlink /></loc>
<lastmod><txp:modified format="%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ" /></lastmod>
</txp:article_custom>
</urlset>and sitemap
how to fix it? it used to worked well for google, something has changed
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Re: Google Search Console and sitemap
I think it’s due to the T and Z not being escaped in your timestamp. You need to either do \T and Z or – as noted in a recent topic on the forum – you can use:
<lastmod><txp:modified format="w3c" /></lastmod>which I think outputs the correct format, or simplify it to:
<lastmod><txp:modified format="%Y-%m-%d" /></lastmod>Unless you’re a breaking news site or you post at times very near timezone changes, the minutes and seconds are largerly irrelevant.
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Re: Google Search Console and sitemap
Julian was faster, I was going to point to a similar thread
I’ve used format="w3c" for a while (since TXP v4.8.8 I think) and that seems to be acceptable for search engines.
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Re: Google Search Console and sitemap
Hehe, was editing while you posted to add the link to that thread… “Great minds” ;-)
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#5 2022-06-30 12:17:46
- Gallex
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Re: Google Search Console and sitemap
brilliant! thank you guys!
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#6 2022-07-04 14:20:03
- arjayarana
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- Registered: 2022-06-27
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Re: Google Search Console and sitemap
Hi all. I’ve submitted my sitemap to Google Search Console, and I’m experiencing this same issue. However, I’m using the plugin rah_sitemap and so I don’t know how to make the changes suggested here.
If I have to make a manual sitemap template instead of using the plugin, I will try to do that. But I’m still new to TXP, so I don’t know where to start.
Below is some code from my sitemap, which shows the problematic time stamp:
<url>
<loc>
https://www.arjayarana.xyz/blog1/rebuilding-this-blog-in-textpattern
</loc>
<lastmod>2022-06-29T06:08:55+0000</lastmod>
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Re: Google Search Console and sitemap
Hi arjayarana,
You can check out how the NeMe site sitemap works where we have a section called sitemap.
Yiannis
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#8 2022-07-04 22:09:48
- arjayarana
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