Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
This has been isolated as a bug on Google’s end. Please read here
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/3280971?hl=en
It’s happening with other SEO plugins as well.
The most prominent reason behind that seems to be the introduction of the Indexing API
https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/
Google has plans to drop the use of Sitemaps and allow indexing API.
With that said, if your Sitemap is opening fine and online tools, such as the below one, shows no error, you should be fine
https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html
With that said, always submit only the index of the Sitemap, which looks like this
https://rankmath.com/sitemap_index.xml
Hope that clears the confusion.
Thank you for trying to help, i just completed reading your post on “Google’s new indexing API”. i saw Bhanu Ahluwalia explaining as of now Google recommends that you use the Indexing API ONLY for Job Posting and Live Streaming websites in the comments.
After this post i made another post by clarifying my issue more here.
https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/sitemap-couldnt-fetch-error-and-urls-crawl-anomaly/
can you please look into that and check the crawl anomaly thing too??
Hi Jewel,
Thanks for getting back to me.
My colleague responded to your other thread on the same. I’m going to mark this thread as closed, however, you can open a new one for any further queries.
Have a good one.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
