Google Search Console >Sitemaps can't fetch every xml sitemap from Rankmath - Support

Resolved Maryam
4 years ago

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Hi there, I am recently having problems with Google Search Console recognizing all of the xml sitemaps generated by Rankmath. Out of the 4 xml files, only two of them can be fetched. In fact it is really hit and miss. Sometimes it fetches them successully, and then seconds later, it indicates that some of the xml files could not be fetched, with the message “General HTTP error”. Can you assist? Thank you in advance.

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Todd
4 years ago

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Hi Maryam,

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.

Maryam
4 years ago

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Thank you Todd for your explanation. Glad that you consider it not to be a problem. I just hope that it does not impact searchability or ranking of my site and its pages. Best regards.

Michael Davis
4 years ago

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Hello,

We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.

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