Hi Thomas,
A small technical point, maybe insignificant, but sitemap.xml code produced by "A1 Sitemap Generator v9.1.0 Pro" begins with these 2 lines:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
I suggest that you might now update those URL references to SSL secured https://
Regards,
Gary, IT ZAP Website Design Works.
Hi Gary,
Will think about it... Although the official examples still use
http:// innstead of
https:// for pointing-to the schemas ...
And checking some threads at Google forums from 2017, then GWT even reports it as an error... (Add to that - sitemaps generated in A1SG has to work for a wider range of services consuming XML sitemaps which expect the namespace ID string to be using
http://)
Reference
- https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/XKQj6WVLLMM (https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/webmasters/XKQj6WVLLMM)
- https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html (https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html)