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GOOGLE SEARCH CONSOLE CAN’T FETCH SITEMAP

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Resolved Pellican Pants
5 years, 10 months ago

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I followed the instructions to set up a sitemap but when submitting it to Google Search Console, I get the message “couldn’t fetch”.
It has been 48 hours now since the first attempt at submitting.

I tried both types of describing the search property of the domain (the old standard method – where you only enter is sitemap_index.xml, and the new Domain Property Option, where the sitemap submission is https://upestcontrol.com/sitemap_index.xml.

Below is a copy of the sitemaps: created by Rankmath:

This XML Sitemap Index file contains 2 sitemaps.

Sitemap Last Modified
https://upestcontrol.com/post-sitemap.xml
2020-01-15 16:24 +00:00
https://upestcontrol.com/page-sitemap.xml
2020-01-15 16:27 +00:00

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Todd
5 years, 10 months ago

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Hi Pellican,

Assuming Google’s unable to fetch the Sitemap is a bug on their 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.

RankBot
5 years, 9 months ago

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.

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