page and post Sitemap not detected by Google - Support

Resolved Paul Ghuman
4 years, 5 months ago

Rank Math free

I am unable to get Google to pick up my sitemap URL. The sitemap is at https://click4lesstax.co.uk/sitemap_index.xml.

It states general HttP error on one screen and when I tryu and index, it says URL will be indexed only if certain conditions are met. I am unsure of how to progress.

Content King also had a similar issue in reaching the site and they said” I have looked into this and the reason why ContentKing wasn’t able to access https://click4lesstax.co.uk/ is that it appears that the default user-agent that was set for monitoring the website is being blocked by the domain.
However, I have adjusted the user-agent string that ContentKing uses when monitoring the website and as you can see here ContentKing is now able to access the website and is crawling it as we speak:” if that helps.

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Anas
4 years, 5 months ago

Rank Math business

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.

Please note that the sitemaps, by default are set to noindex as you do not want them to appear in the search results. The sitemaps should only be submitted in the sitemaps section in the search console.

I checked the sitemap, it is working fine:

Can you please follow these steps?
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 the website cache, remove all the sitemaps from the Search Console and add only sitemap_index.xml.

I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.

Paul Ghuman
4 years, 5 months ago

Rank Math free

Hi

I have followed these steps but the Google Search Console is still saying

Sitemap could not be read. It appears that the page and post sitemaps have an error highlighted as a General HTTP error 1 instance.

Please advise.

Azib Yaqoob
4 years, 5 months ago

Rank Math business

Hello,

Please head over to your WordPress admin area and go to Settings > Permalinks and hit the “Save Changes” button once even if you didn’t make any changes on the page.

This should fix the issue.

Let me know how this goes. Thank you.

Paul Ghuman
4 years, 5 months ago

Rank Math free

Hi

I have saved on permalinks. I have deleted sitemap from Google Search Console and then added again. It still says “could not fetch”. When I drill down the category sitemap and elementor-hf-sitemap are read but the page and post sitemap xml’s are showing 1 error.

Please advise.

Reinelle
4 years, 5 months ago

Hello,

I’ve checked your site, and it seems that you haven’t verified the www version of your website to be redirected to the non-www.

Please ensure that only 1 version of the sitemap is working (200 Ok status), and the rest are redirecting to it. You can also use this tool to check.

You can follow the steps in this link to redirect your www version of your site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/couldnt-fetch-error-google-search-console/#5-check-for-the-correct-version-of-the-sitemap

Once done, remove all the sitemaps submitted in your Google Search Console and resubmit your main sitemap.

I hope that helps.

Thank you.

RankBot
4 years, 3 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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