Rebuild Sitemap

ntbrowlash · ‎01-27-2022

Google is telling me there is an error in my Sitemap. I checked and there is one URL that is no longer used. How do I trigger for the sitemap to reset and drop that one entry? I already tried to unpublish the entire site and re-publish to see if the sitemap automatically re-generated, but it still has the same entries.

http://www.ntbrowlash.com/sitemap.xml

The "https://www.ntbrowlash.com/s/order" entry should be removed

Bernadette3 · ‎01-29-2022

Thanks for reaching out, @ntbrowlash

Did you have an online store at one point? Can you post a screenshot of the Google dashboard that is flagging this URL as an error?

@whitemonkey Do you happen to know if this is possible?

whitemonkey · ‎01-29-2022

@Bernadette @ntbrowlash

Looks from the message that there is a difference with HTTPS and HTTP

You need to be consistent with what your website is. Its either http or https . Work out which one it is and forget the other

ntbrowlash · ‎01-30-2022

I don't see how protocol is related to having a 404 web link in the sitemap.xml file. I need Weebly to re-generate the sitemap and exclude the web URL that doesn't exist.

ntbrowlash · ‎01-30-2022

@BernadetteI don't doubt that the web URL was added to the sitemap at some point in history when the site was first testing options with weebly, but that URL is now a dead 404 link and should no longer be in the sitemap. Does Weebly have a way to re-generate the sitemap.xml and exclude the entry for https://www.ntbrowlash.com/s/order

Google contacted me via direct email when they crawled the sitemap and that's how this came about.

Look at the last entry in the sitemap - https://www.ntbrowlash.com/sitemap.xml (using https or http is irrelevant, they serve the same sitemap)

and see that you get a 404 when you attempt to open the last entry - https://www.ntbrowlash.com/s/order