Bug Sitemap - No URLs

[RobAC]

I recently upgraded by DBSEO to 2.0.22. In Google Webmasters, I now see the following error message being generated from the DBSEO sitemap:

Empty Sitemap - Your Sitemap does not contain any URLs. Please validate and resubmit your Sitemap.

What could be causing this??

 

[RobAC]

Also: Google doesn't seem to be indexing anything from my forums. See attached image:

 

[Fillip H.]

Please do not submit the sitemaps individually. Only submit /dbseositemap.php.

 

[RobAC]

I am getting the same error message:

 

[Fillip H.]

http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/dbseositemap.php?fn=dbseo_sitemap_post_23.xml.gz

If you click that and unzip the resulting file, you'll find it does indeed contain URLs. I am, however, noticing that you have a very large amount of URLs in this sitemap. Please go to the DBSEO CP -> Sitemap Settings -> General Settings -> URLs Per Page and make sure this is set to 30000 or less. If it's currently set to 30000, please try halving it to 15000 and rebuild your sitemap and ask GWT to refresh your sitemap.

 

[RobAC]

It was set to 30000, but I did as you said, dropped it to 15000, re-built the sitemap and sent it to GWT, it now shows over 1,000,000 urls sent and only 8 indexed. See attached.

On another site where I'm running DBSEO, over 72,000 URLs were sent, and none of them got indexed. See attached.

 

[Fillip H.]

This is normal. Google will re-index your site slowly over time, and even submitting a sitemap is not a guarantee that 100% of the sitemap URLs will be indexed. We have absolutely no control over this, so we cannot speed up this process.

 

[Fillip H.]

Hello RobAC,

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