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Problem
I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this problem. My site's sitemap.xml has never been automatically submitted to Bing, despite this being configured and the site verified last July 15.
Even the db log seems to say that it is submitting successfully, yet Bing is still telling me that sitemap.xml has not been submitted since July 15.
Google is fine. It's reporting the last submission on Sept 12.
From the log:
Type xmlsitemap
Date Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 4:40pm
User Anonymous (not verified)
Location http://www.xxxxx.ca/portfolio/photo-gallery?field_gallery_image_product_tid[]=2
Referrer
Message Submitted the sitemap to http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=http://xxxx.ca/sitemap.xml and received response 200.
Severity notice
Hostname 180.76.5.91
Operations
Type xmlsitemap
Date Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 4:40pm
User Anonymous (not verified)
Location http://www.xxxx.ca/portfolio/photo-gallery?field_gallery_image_product_tid[]=2
Referrer
Message Submitted the sitemap to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://xxxx.ca/sitemap.xml and received response 200.
Severity notice
Hostname 180.76.5.91
I have double-checked that the site is, indeed, verified.
Am I missing something obvious? Can someone give me a lead?
Thanks in advance! Our clients love the module.
Comments
Comment #1
othermachines CreditAttribution: othermachines commentedChanging component.
Comment #2
dhalbert CreditAttribution: dhalbert commentedI have the same problem. Bing talks about what URL to use here: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/how-to-submit-sitemaps-82a15bd4. Bing asks for
http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.example.com/sitemap.xml
. The module is usingping.aspx?siteMap=http://example.com/sitemap.xml
.So the differences are
ping.aspx
vsping
and the Bing example is URL-encoded (but maybe that is being done invisibly by the module?).Comment #3
othermachines CreditAttribution: othermachines commentedThanks, @dhalbert. I get the same 200 response from both URLs:
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http://xxxxx.ca/sitemap.xml
http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xxxxx.ca/sitemap.xml
gets me...
"Thanks for submitting your Sitemap. Join the Bing Webmaster Tools to see your Sitemaps status and more reports on how you are doing on Bing."
Still showing as sitemap last submitted on 2013-07-15 in Webmaster Tools. "Last crawl" is more recent, at the beginning of October.
In Bing help:
"The server will respond with HTTP Status 200 (OK) if the submission was successful."
I feel like I must be missing something obvious, or perhaps misunderstanding how this should work? I've just now tried submitting it manually (via Webmaster Tools) and so far there don't seem to be any errors with the sitemap.xml file. "Last submitted" has now updated to today's date.
Comment #4
dhalbert CreditAttribution: dhalbert commentedI agree - Bing simply doesn't seem to be doing what it says it's doing, which is accepting the sitemap.
Comment #5
Kristen PolClosing this because it's so old.