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Richard Wootton
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Hi

I've got sh404SEF and am trying to get the mydomainname/sitemap.xml file to be recognised by such as SEO Quake and SEOptimer but they keep reporting the file does not exist. I have read through the documentation about adding

RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ index.php?option=com_jmap&view=sitemap&format=xml [L]

to the .htaccess file

and seen the post below
http://storejextensions.org/forum/view/10-jsitemap/2395-solved-sitemap-xml.html

but nothing seams to allow the url http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/sitemap.xml to be recognised.

I have created http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/sitemap.xml by changing the sh404SEF url link /sitemap to /sitemap.xml and adding the rule into .htaccess so I have successfully created the url redirection below

If you go to
http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/sitemap

you get
http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/sitemap.xml

Which shows the classic xml structure as required.

Have I done this correctly?

Is there something else I need to do to get the SEO checkers to recognise sitemap.xml?

Cheers
 
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John Dagelmore
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Hi Richard,

this is the answer: http://storejextensions.org/faq/why-online-seo-stats-services-report-missing-sitemap.html

Seo checkers are dumb and only able to detect physical files on the server and nothing else. You can place a static sitemap.xml file at the root of your site if this makes you happiest but it's not required at all.

The only thing that is required is that the sitemap entry is present in the robots.txt

Cheers!
John
 
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Richard Wootton
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Thanks John

Does this mean I can/should reverse the sh404SEF url change and remove the .htaccess entry?

I gather submitting the sitemaps to the url is therefore also needed even if I have submitted them already to GWT

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Rich
 
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John Dagelmore
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Hi Richard,

well if you did it just use it for GWT that's ok.

With the htaccess entry the link:
http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/sitemap.xml

is simply an alias of the normal link:
http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/index.php?option=com_jmap&view=sitemap&format=xml

Submitting the alias http://jkcourierandhaulage.co.uk/sitemap.xml
to GWT is ok as well.

Cheers,
John
 
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