Question

I submitted a sitemap to Google and I got this error.

Incorrect namespace
Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn’t properly declare the namespace. Expected: http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1 Found: http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1

I thought that sitemaps.org was okay. I took it from Google’s example:

Google’s sitemap example

What am I doing wrong? Any ideas?

Answer 1

Have you tried replacing

http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1

with

http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1

since that seem to be problem?

If you have and that didn’t help, can you post your sitemap here? Include just a few url tags.

Update: This page may be of use: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php. It’s where I started when I wrote my first sitemap.

Another thought: In case you don’t link directly to images or videos but only to html pages or php pages, you probably can remove

xmlns:image="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1"

and

xmlns:video="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1

I’m not using that code in my sitemap, and it works as it should.