If a sitemap is erroneously detected as plain-text sitemap (cf. #144), SiteMapParser may report all or most of the file content as "bad url". This may result either in many log messages: 2016-12-22 13 ...

John Mueller of Google said on Twitter that Google will count the same URL in different sitemap files separately, which could sometimes lead to the number of URLs in your sitemaps being less than the ...

I walk into the room, 7 minutes before air time and Vanessa Fox of Google Webmaster Central is handing out donuts. Yum! On the panel are representatives from all the major engines plus Todd Oilman ...

Google and Bing announced jointly that they have increased the file size limit of Sitemaps files from 10MB to 50MB. That means the uncompressed version must now be under 50MB, no longer under 10MB.