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1. chantingbudha
   Member
   Aug 14, 2009, 7:34 AM

   I am having a problem with my site RSS feed being declared invalid in Google Webmaster tools. It shows parsing errors and shows not a single url to crawl. While RSS feed validators says its a valid feed and all right. SEE http://beta.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//chantingbudha.wordpress.com/feed

   My RSS feed is http://chantingbudha.wordpress.com/feed

   Any advice is welcome and Thanks in advance for your precious little time and skill-full advice.

   The blog I need help with is chantingbudha.wordpress.com.

2. tellyworth
   Staff
   Aug 14, 2009, 8:23 AM

   http://ismyblogworking.com/chantingbudha.wordpress.com - also confirms that your feed is fine.

   Sounds like a problem with Webmaster Tools. What exactly do the errors say?

3. husdal
   Member
   Aug 14, 2009, 8:27 AM

   Forgive me for asking, but why do you want to submit the feed and not the sitemap?

4. mfrankly
   Member
   Aug 22, 2009, 8:14 AM

   I just ran into the same problem. I submitted the sitemap as well. Webmaster Tools found the feed and asked if I wanted to add it so I did as well. The errors it returned were:

   Line 13
   Status Invalid URL
   This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.
   URL:
   http://
   Parent tag: channel
   Tag: link
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 13
   Status Incorrect namespace
   Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace.
   Parent tag: channel
   Tag: link
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 13
   Status Invalid XML attribute
   The XML attribute of this tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Tag: link
   Attribute: href
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 13
   Status Invalid XML attribute
   The XML attribute of this tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Tag: link
   Attribute: rel
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 13
   Status Invalid XML attribute
   The XML attribute of this tag was not recognized. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Tag: link
   Attribute: type
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 14
   Status Invalid XML: too many tags
   Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Parent tag: channel
   Tag: link
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 34
   Status Invalid XML: too many tags
   Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Parent tag: item
   Tag: comments
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 54
   Status Invalid XML: too many tags
   Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Parent tag: item
   Tag: comments
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009
   
   Line 79
   Status Invalid XML: too many tags
   Too many tags describing this tag. Please fix it and resubmit.
   Parent tag: item
   Tag: comments
   Problem detected on: Aug 22, 2009

5. tellyworth
   Staff
   Aug 22, 2009, 8:34 AM

   You don't need to submit your sitemap to Google. Google already knows about it.

   http://support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#xml-sitemaps-for-search-engines

6. chantingbudha
   Member
   Sep 1, 2009, 3:05 PM

   Thanks for all the posters here. With there replies, I got the answer to the problem.

7. chantingbudha
   Member
   Oct 7, 2009, 11:42 AM

   Actually Google allows blogs feed url be submitted as sitemap so in the past it was working OK but from some 2-3 months back it is coming out as invalid sitemap url. I think it is related with google webmaster upgradation issues. As everyone must be aware here that they have updated there webmaster pages. Personally I haven't liked there upgradation because it is showing lesser backlinks even while it was in beta mode. And this sitemap thing has made me even more to dis like the update.

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