I am trying to get around the Dark Web issue with NewsAricles module.

I see tremendous benefit to have the ability to submit a sitemap to Google that indexes all of the articles.

I submitted the generated RSS feed, http://dnnprofessor.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge - NewsArticles/Rss.aspx?TabID=223&ModuleID=395, to Google webmaster tools.

Google returns the error:

URL contains illegal characters

I thought it might be the spaces between DNNForge and NewsArticles so I tried:

http://dnnprofessor.com/DesktopModules/DnnForge%20-%20NewsArticles/Rss.aspx?TabID=223&ModuleID=395

Which results in a Google generated error:

General HTTP error: HTTP 400 error (Bad request)
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit

Is there any way to submit the articles to Google without creating a sitemap manually?

TIA,
Buck

Hi Scott,

That link was accepted today. I am in pending mode and will let you know if Google finds errors or warnings.

Buck

DNN Professor, I am interested as well... Did you have any error or problems ??

On my side, I have errors:

Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmit.

DV FX

Hello Scott,

I have no idea, the only error message sent by Google is the following:

Invalid XML: too many tags
Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmit.

Georges, I do not understand your proposition. Do you have a solution for submitting to Google ? Did you experienced what you proposed ?

DV FX

Sure. That's the standard RSS from NA, I have not modified anything when migrating to most recent NA version: Pinnacle Studio RSS feed

DV FX

Sure. It is called Google Webmaster tools: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
You need to register and then to submit your website, and finally your sitemap.

Just as a reminder, I am trying to submit NA RSS Feed as a sitemap, because today, there exist NO OTHER SOLUTION (no dynamic google sitemap) for NA Article... I know that there exist some solutions, but unfortunately, none of them are working properly. I have already tried to discuss with the authors, without success.

Maybe that would be interesting Scott if you implement a dynamic sitemap in your module ???

DV FX

Yes, if only ifinity sitemap module was working correctly... I would be VERY HAPPY !!!

But we are asking Bruce for a fix since March 2008... :-(
See Bruce forum (this thread) where we discuss the topic, without having a positive answer yet.
We also discussed the topic in DNN core forum (this thread) as well as Scott forum (this thread).

That's why I am wondering if we can have any working module for this ?
I am asking a module where I can have a dynamic sitemap, like the one of Bruce, but a working version ?.... (I notice that I am using a bi-lingual website, and usually, people using bi-lingual website are just ignored)

DV FX

I had success with submitting the RSS for NA until recently.

Now I am getting multiple errors:

We've detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don't use the www prefix (for instance, http://example.com/myfile.htm).

Has anybody else experienced this in Google WebMaster Tools?

TIA
Buck