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What's the latest on Yoast compatibility with SEO and sitemaps?
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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 28, 2014 - 11:03 am

Sorry - what random number? Where?

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Jan 28, 2014 - 12:22 pm

Just follow this link http://wp-infinity.com/forum-sitemap.xml

 

On the right column their should be a date just like for this sitemap : http://wp-infinity.com/post-sitemap.xml

 

The last modified column. The error appear in google webmaster tool.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Jan 28, 2014 - 12:43 pm

I will need to talk to Steve about this one but the number you refer to is a standard Unix timestamp recognised internationally. What are you suggesting it should be?

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Jan 28, 2014 - 3:28 pm

I really don't know what's the problem but on my post/pages sitemap the date is diplayed on a classic format

but when i test my sitemap with  google webmaster tools it says their is an error with this date format...

Maybe try to send your forum sitemap to google web tool and he will say "invalid date format". Trough I believe google index it anyway. So no real problem just to let you know smile

 

 

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Mr Papa
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Jan 28, 2014 - 11:58 pm

okay, thanks...

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Theo Patsios
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Feb 14, 2014 - 10:03 am

I have only just got around to submitting my forum sitemap to my google account and it gives me all errors on the date too

Errors
Invalid date
An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting.
167
Parent tag: url
Tag: lastmod
Value: 1392372138
5
Feb 14, 2014
Parent tag: url
Tag: lastmod
Value: 1392372401
11
Feb 14, 2014
Parent tag: url
Tag: lastmod
Value: 1392222965
17
Feb 14, 2014

My other sitemaps are fine and it is just the Forum one - http://electrofx.com/forum-sitemap.xml

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Theo

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Mr Papa
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Feb 14, 2014 - 10:48 am

so where is the parent sitemap???  there is this:  http://electrofx.com/sitemap.xml

but thats not the parent for the forum one...

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Theo Patsios
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Feb 15, 2014 - 10:01 am

You just click "Sitemap Index" on the page I sent and it takes you here - http://electrofx.com/sitemap_index.xml

All sitemaps are OK except the forum one.

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Yellow Swordfish
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Feb 15, 2014 - 11:57 am

Sorry to say I wouldn't know one end of a sitemap from the other so we probably need to wait for Steve to get back from hos short vacation. The previous poster on this thread seemed to suggest that while it might say there was an error - Google dealt with it correctly anyway.

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