Search Console Says 0 URLs in Sitemap

#261174
  • Resolved Alex RugExpert
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    Hello, Rankmath team,

    Our website was using Yoast earlier and just 1 week ago We have switched to the rank math. We have set up everything for SEO optimization. In the search console coverage status says ” Submitted and indexed pages are 0″ and “Indexed, not submitted in sitemap 6900″ check the screenshot here: https://ibb.co/WkPNp7L

    But our sitemap is up and running and there are almost all the pages that needed to be indexed perfectly. We have submitted this https://matthebasics.com/sitemap_index.xml and the status says ” Discovered URL Zero” check in the screenshot: https://ibb.co/G9bB03c

    I really confused why the search console says our sitemap doesn’t contain any URL but in actual, the sitemap has all the data.

    waiting for a quick response and the solution on it. I have already faced this issue some of my other websites as well.

    Thank You.

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    We checked your sitemap with Googlebot and it was able to read it properly and was showing all the pages.

    Having said that, we also noticed that your robots.txt has mentioned a lot of sitemaps when in fact it should only reference one, the main sitemap.

    ​​​​​Please switch those entries to a single one that mentions the main sitemap and then proceed to the following steps:

    1. Flush the sitemap by following this tutorial: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    2. Make sure that you exclude your sitemap from being cached by following this tutorial: https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    After you have completed all this please re-submit your sitemap to Google Search Console and wait a few days to see if Google is now able to retrieve the links from the sitemap.

    Hope this helps solve your issues.

    Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

    I have done that after your reply. But its been two days but nothing happened. The problem is still there. What is the issue why I am facing this problem. Please do help.

    Azib Yaqoob
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    The message of ‘Total Discovered URLs 0’ that you see in Google Search Console just means that the URLs contained in the sitemap were already found by Googlebot by other means, instead of via the sitemap. For example, Googlebot may have found the URLs from internal links or possibly from links on another site.

    I have also checked your site using the site search operator on Google and most of the pages from your site are already indexed.

    Apart from what my colleague has suggested, I am afraid, there’s nothing much you can do but wait for some time.

    Hope that helps. Please don’t hesitate to contact us again if you need further assistance.

    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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