Sitemap isn't being read by google

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  idriveacademy · Member · Aug 31, 2014 at 9:47 am

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  I have a domain mapped to my wordpress.com blog, but the sitemap seems to have some problems.

  The first issue is that it showing on a secure page: https://idriveacademy.com.au/robots.txt, but comes up with a warning because the certificate is for *.wordpress.com.

  The second issue is that it doesn’t seem to be mapping the pages in the site. I tried toggling the privacy settings, but this didn’t help.

  When I test the site in google webmaster tools I get the error, “Unsupported file format”. Unfortunately it doesn’t provide any helpful information after that.

  Any ideas on how I can resolve this issue? It’s left me quite confused.

  Thanks!

  Steve

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  rachelmcr · Member · Sep 1, 2014 at 2:25 pm

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  Hi Steve,

  The first issue is that it showing on a secure page: https://idriveacademy.com.au/robots.txt, but comes up with a warning because the certificate is for *.wordpress.com.

  You’ll need to use the regular HTTP version of your site. For example, your robots.txt file is here: http://idriveacademy.com.au/robots.txt

  WordPress.com isn’t able to support HTTPS for mapped domains. You can read more about that here: HTTPS

  The second issue is that it doesn’t seem to be mapping the pages in the site. I tried toggling the privacy settings, but this didn’t help.

  The robots.txt page isn’t actually where you sitemap is located. You can view your sitemap (including your site’s pages) here: http://idriveacademy.com.au/sitemap.xml

  You can read more about how sitemaps work here: Sitemaps

  If you have any other questions about that, please let me know!