Problems with the Webmaster Sitemap Status with WordPress Blog

Hey friends! From last week many blogger are facing a problem with there Sitemap status in Google Webmaster Tool. There is some message like this: “Duplicate URL: This URL is a duplicate of another URL in the sitemap. Please remove it and resubmit”. I’ve also faced this problem. Then I tried to find the solution in the Webmaster forum. But sadly, nothing there was to help me. Then I decided to try myself. At last I solved the problem.

You may see this type of error message…….

But don’t worry. It is occurring for the Xml-Sitemap generator plugin. After posting any new post in your blog, the plugin generates the sitemap for your site and updates the notification to Google, yahoo,bing, ask.com etc. But if you add the URLl manually then the problem creates. The problem may be created for any other reasons.

To solve this problem you have to delete the duplicate urls in your sitemap. So download the Sitemap.xml file from your root directory and remove the duplicate URLs manually and upload it again. But if your blog quantity is too large then it is not so easy to remove the duplicate urlsURLs manually. Don’t worry, go to your root directory where the site belongs. It should be /yoursite.com/. Now take a backup of your Sitemap.xml and Sitemap.xml.gz and delete those from your root directory. Now go to your dashboard and open Xml-sitemap plugin under settings menu. Delete all the entry if you added manually (no need to add URL manually, if your site folder in the root directory Sitemap generator will do it automatically) and press “Rebuild the sitemap manually”. Go to webmaster tool and resubmit the Sitemap. Wait for some days. You will see the result soon. Don’t panic for your indexed URLs. Google will show the exact no ofURLs that was indexed before.

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