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GSC can’t fetch page-sitemap.xml

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Resolved David Petrovic
4 years, 10 months ago

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Hey guys, amazing plugin!

We’re trying to add page-sitemap.xml to Google Search Console and we get an error saying that it can’t be fetched. I read your similar support tickets and couldn’t figure out how to fix it.

We can add the main sitemap, but can’t add the page-sitemap.xml

Any suggestions?

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Todd
4 years, 10 months ago

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Hi David,

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
4 years, 10 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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