Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that Google stopped reading your sitemaps. This issue can occur due to various reasons. One common reason is an unsupported file format error in the sitemap. To address this, you should ensure that your sitemap file is correctly formatted with the appropriate header and namespace.
If you are still facing issues after checking the file format, you can also validate your sitemap using tools like httpstatus to ensure it returns a status code of 200. Additionally, make sure to redirect all XML sitemap variations to the final variation and clear your website cache before resubmitting the sitemap in Google Search Console.
If these steps do not resolve the issue, please provide more details or reply to this ticket for further assistance. Thank you for reaching out to us.
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
We checked your sitemap and we can see it is working properly without any issues.
In this case, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
Once done, clear your website cache, remove all the submitted sitemap, and resubmit only the /sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello, sir
Though all mentioned steps are done, The same issue is still excist. Google can’t read site sitemap.
This issue is only happens for one of my sites that uses Rank Math
Hello,
Can you please remove all sitemaps from your GSC again and submit this instead? https://YOURWEBSITE.COM/?sitemap=1.
If the issue persists, please share a full screenshot of the report and error message you see from Google Search Console after you submitted your sitemap.
Looking forward to helping you.
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.
