: Google Webmaster Tools can cache sitemap files? I'm struggling to submit my sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools. Previously I received report that I have an error in all my sitemaps (the error

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I'm struggling to submit my sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools. Previously I received report that I have an error in all my sitemaps (the error was at <image:image> tag as I did not specified necessary link in the sitemap header). After the error was fixed I tried to resubmit the sitemaps but Google Webmaster Tools abused for me again and for the same line number (in my case: line 8, containing <priority>0.7</priority>). If I click on the sitemap file name - it is downloading OK (previously it was with 'red' header with list of detected errors).

So I really doubt that Google Webmaster Tools loading correct files. How can I make sure?

The beginning of my sitemaps is the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1">
<url>
<loc>Valid and tested link</loc>
<lastmod>2014-02-03</lastmod>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
<priority>0.7</priority>
<image:image>
<image:loc>Valid and tested link</image:loc>
<image:title>11-word description</image:title>
</image:image>
</url>

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