Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Google sitemaps keeps returning errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Google sitemaps keeps returning errors

 *  [Duf69](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duf69/)
 * (@duf69)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-google-sitemaps-keeps-returning-errors/)
 * I always get “URLs improperly formatted” errors from google webmaster tools.
 * I resorted to using my hosts sitemap tools, which work just fine with google.
 * I kept the plugin active to notify websites such as bing and yahoo updated with
   my sitemap.

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 *  [keychange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keychange/)
 * (@keychange)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-google-sitemaps-keeps-returning-errors/#post-1996885)
 * I get the same error and if I delete the schema data it’s fine. But next update
   fails again and so on. Beats me why a very standard XML file requires an XSL

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 * [XML Sitemap Generator for Google](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)
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 * Last reply from: [keychange](https://wordpress.org/support/users/keychange/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-google-sitemaps-keeps-returning-errors/#post-1996885)
 * Status: not resolved