Poster 2 sitemap feed validation for SEO

inStacks
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Hi Jannis

I was playing with the RSS feed for seo, as on this page: Sitemap, RSS Feed, and iTunes Podcast

My Poster 2 page is here:
https://www.smartsingers.org/previous-concerts/?feed=sitemap

I get an error when I submit it to a Feed Validator:
https://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smartsingers.org%2Fprevious-concerts%2F%3Ffeed%3Dsitemap

Sorry

This feed does not validate.

* [line 2](https://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smartsingers.org%2Fprevious-concerts%2F%3Ffeed%3Dsitemap#l2), column 0: Undefined root element: urlset [[help](https://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/error/UndefinedElement.html)]
> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http: ...

In addition, interoperability with the widest range of feed readers etc. etc.

I have submitted the feed to google search console, and it seems to work AFAIK, so I don’t know if the error is important or not.

Many thanks, as ever.

Fergus

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You try to validate a sitemap inside a RSS feed validator.

Try with https://www.smartsingers.org/previous-concerts/?feed=rss

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Thank you for the very quick reply. Much appreciated.

Well, using the feed=rss page generates a lot of other errors which all appear to do with iTunes.

I need a sitemap, not rss or iTunes podcast feed. Ahrefs gives the site 100%.

Do you know if the validation errors are important? Or can I ignore them.

Best wishes

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I don’t know if this validator is correctly evaluating site maps. The site map is working fine.

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Understood. Thanks again for providing the functionality. It’s really great.

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