What are partial urls and why this is causing a sitemap error?
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Hi mozzers,
I have a client that recorded 7 errors when generating Xml sitemap. One of the errors appear to be coming from partial urls and apparently I would need to exclude them from sitemap. What are they exactly and why would they cause an error in the sitemap.
Thanks!
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Thanks Jeff!
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Taysir-
Partial URLs are often formed when you have illegal characters in the URL (such as an & symbol or a space) or you have name-value pairs (?id=1&location=54).
In some cases, the URLs that are generated in a site map may not be URL encoded properly, and then you get an error when submitting the site map.
The reasons this can happen:
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You have a static page on your site with a space in the file name (i.e. /about us.html) You could fix this with a %20 where the space is (i.e. /about%20us.html)
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You have a content management system (i.e. WordPress) and the URL is based on the page name. Usually this can be fixed by changing the URL key and removing special characters and spaces.
Here's a Google forum discussion on the topic:
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/oa0dbGvdP7c -
It's possible that you are using a relative URL in your CSS file, and that's throwing an error. More details here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/940451/using-relative-url-in-css-file-what-location-is-it-relative-to
Hope this helps!
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