I was having problems locating http://www.thegaleon.com/feed, so I created a feed at FeedBurner, thinking it’d solve the problem.

My blog feed became http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheGaleon.

I tried to submit a feed (WordPress allows several) at Google Webmaster Tools.

But kept on getting this (*%^$-ing!) warning.

sitemap error google

You can try the following. Hopefully, one will work.

Choose “Add General Web Sitemap” in Google Webmaster Tools, as the option.

These are actually for Blogger blogs, so I removed the “blogspot” portion when first trying to submit the feed for The Galeon (which runs on WordPress).

Method #1:

Delete the existing sitemap and submit a new web sitemap that has the following URL:

http://xxx.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false [replace xxx with your blog name]

Method #2:

http://yourblogname.com/rss.xml?orderby=updated

Method #3:

http://www.yourblogname.com/atom.xml?orderby=updated

Method #4:

The one that finally worked for me. Not exactly a feed submission, but it’s better than nothing. I don’t get that annoying warning anymore too.

Download Google XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress, by Arne Brachhold.

Activate plugin within WordPress admin panel.

You’ll create a sitemap like this: http://www.thegaleon.com/sitemap.xml.

Submit that to Google Webmaster Tools.

In about 15 minutes, I finally saw this.

google sitemap

You can update the sitemap (using the plugin features) whenever you’d like.

PS: I don’t recommend attempting to fix the problem, by tweaking the feed-rss2.php file. It’ll only make things unnecessarily more complicated.

References: Digital Inspiration, Bridge to Nova

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