Robot.txt validator gives this error: Warning: 'sitemap' - tag isn't specified.

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• Friday, December 07, 2007 6:48 AMBioVam

   
  

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  Hi again,

   

  Not sure if I was clear on this:

   

  When using your robots.txt validator, after one eneters the copy of the text, no matter what site the file is from it gives this warning message:

   

  Warning: 'sitemap' - tag isn't specified.

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  So the question, is your validator or rather the MSN bot now looking for some special 'sitemap tag' within the robots.txt file?

   

  Or is this an error of your online utility?

   

  I have never gotten this error from any on-line robots.txt file validator is why I am asking.

   

  Thanks for the help.

   

  Larry

   
• Friday, December 07, 2007 8:23 PMUnveiled Bride

   
  

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  I got the same error mesage today. Any ideas?

   
• Friday, December 07, 2007 10:33 PMTravis Stone

   
  

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  Same for me - what the heck is a "sitemap" tag?

   

   

  !!!!! EDIT !!!!!!

   

  add this to the end of your robots.txt to get rid of that prompt:

  
  Sitemap: http://yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

   

  Replace my dummy path with the path to your website sitemap, and presto! no more complaining from the validator. I've still never seen a "Sitemap" tag before.... : P

   

   

  Trav

   
• Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:00 AMJeremiah Andrick Microsoft

   
  

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  Thanks Trav,

   

  You're right the way to avoid seeing this message is to add the string.  

   

  Sitemap: http://yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

   

  You can find information on this tag at:

   

  http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php#informing

   

  Jeremiah

   
• Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:46 AMRaheell

   
  

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  Specifying the Sitemap location in your robots.txt file:

   

  You can specify the location of the Sitemap using a robots.txt file. To do this, simply add the following line:

  Sitemap: <sitemap_location>The <sitemap_location> should be the complete URL to the Sitemap, such as:

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

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

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

  http://www.memory4less.net/sitemap.xml

   

  This directive is independent of the user-agent line, so it doesn't matter where you place it in your file. If you have a Sitemap index file, you can include the location of just that file. You don't need to list each individual Sitemap listed in the index file.

   

  You can specify more than one Sitemap file per robots.txt file.

   

  Sitemap: <sitemap1_location>
  Sitemap: <sitemap2_location>

   
• Wednesday, November 19, 2008 4:15 PMptannjr

   
  

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  I put this

  
  

  1. User-Agent: *

  2. Allow: /

  3. http://www.ocalacaraudio.com/sitemap.xml
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

  I got this

  
  

  Line #3: http://www.ocalacaraudio.com/sitemap.xml

  Warning: MSNBOT doesn't support this tag.

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  Warning: 'sitemap' - tag isn't specified.

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• Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:06 AMLeo000001

   
  

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  You may add "sitemap:" tag before your url.
  
  User-Agent: *
  Allow: /
  sitemap: http://www.ocalacaraudio.com/sitemap.xml

  • Edited byLeo000001 Wednesday, June 03, 2009 2:11 AMtypo
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