Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page.

Hi,

This error has been a thorn in my arse for way too long. Is it a nopCommerce issue, a hosting issue, or a google issue?

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks,
Rhek

Have you browsed to the /sitemap.xml or done a HTTP GET of ot?

What do you get?

I get a valid xml file or at least it looks that way.

saved the sitemap.xml to the desktop and then opened in xml notepad which has a problem with lastmod.

http://sportsnutritioncenter.com/2015-10-08_220054.jpg

the second line does not look right to me, researching some more.

http://sportsnutritioncenter.com/2015-10-08_220721.jpg

I am having same issue , not sure what is wrong !!!

i am using NOPCOM 3.40

& i am getting same error

"Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page." in web master tool

any suggestion ?

Hi,

I just upgraded to nop 3.6 and google still thinks my sitemap.xml is html.

Really need some help with this.

Rhek

This might be helpful: https://www.nopcommerce.com/boards/t/20922/confused-on-how-to-use-sitemapseo.aspx

if i am not mistaken, /sitemapseo is no longer valid. it is /sitemap.xml.

I turned off categories, manufactures, and products so the xml is minimal and still google still tells me it is html. Anyone from nopCommerce shed some light on this issue?

Here is my current sitemap.xml...

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc>http://sportsnutritioncenter.com/</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<lastmod>2015-10-16</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://sportsnutritioncenter.com/search</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<lastmod>2015-10-16</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://sportsnutritioncenter.com/contactus</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<lastmod>2015-10-16</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>http://sportsnutritioncenter.com/news</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
<lastmod>2015-10-16</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>

I am starting to think that I can view the sitemap.xml in a browser, but when i test the sitemap on google an error page is generated which is html. only thing that makes sense to me. just wish i could view what google is seeing so i could confirm. i was asked if sitemap.xml was redirecting and honestly i am not sure. Anyone?

Rhek