Mystery URL http://#/ Listed in XML Sitemap Created by WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin

Question

I'm using the Wordpress SEO by Yoast plugin. I'm having problems getting the Sitemaps XML section to work properly. Google gives me the dreaded red X for the status of the sitemap.

The error message Google gives is: 208 "Invalid URL This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit."

The incorrect Google XML lists is: http://#/ . In the XML sitempap created by the plugin, I can see that that URL is listed.

I'm not sure where the XML Sitemap generator came up with this URL. In order to get my dropdown menus to work, I set the URL to # on some blank pages that only have a title.

For example, the first child in my navigation is a blank page with a URL set to # and a title of "A-C". The "A-C" page's children are the pages of all of the areas starting with A thru C. I set the "A-C" page's robot meta to noindex, nofollow. Does that have something to do with the problem?

I don't have a page named http://#/. As I don't have a page with this URL listed in my WordPress Pages section, I can't set it to noindex, nofollow. Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Thank you.