Sitemap Dissappearance??
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Greetings Mozzers,
Doing my standard run through Webmaster tools and I discover up to 30% of my sitemaps no longer exist.
Has anyone else experienced the recent loss of sitemaps/can suggest reasons why this may have happened?
Re-submitting all sitemaps now but just concerned this might become an on-going issue...
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Hi Robert,
One possibility: A few months ago Google Webmaster Tools changed it's user interface to visually separate sitemaps submitted by you, and sitemaps submitted by others.
The default view shows only sitemaps submitted by the Google account you are currently logged into. If sitemaps were submitted by others, or under another Google account you have access to, the screen may appear blank with the following message:
"You have not submitted any sitemaps for this site."
But sitemaps may still exist if you hit the "All" tab. (See screenshot attached) Hitting this tab will reveal all sitemaps Google has on file.
This confuses a lot of webmasters, including myself, because it makes it look like the sitemap has disappeared, even though Google has a record of it and is actively crawling it.
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Have not experience that lately, although I would assume it's possible just a WMT glitch.
Have you tried asking on the google forums?
All the best.
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