Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
Please share your sitemap URL so we can check and validate it. You can add it to the sensitive data section by editing your first post
It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.
Looking forward to helping you.
how do i backup the plugin data to uninstall and then reinstall and import settings?
I upgraded to pro, installed the new plugin. I checked on another of my sites and it is not having this issue. seems to be this site only.
Hello,
We’ve validated your sitemaps, but they seem to be working fine:
https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html
In this case, please remove all your submitted sitemaps and resubmit your main sitemap only /sitemap_index.xml.
Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site and the “Last read” date column should be updated as well.
Regarding the backup, you won’t need to do that if you have upgraded from the free to the PRO version as all the data you have already set are still the same. The Rank Math PRO plugin only unlocks all the features available in the upgraded version.
However, here’s a guide you can follow for that:
https://rankmath.com/kb/import-export-settings/
Looking forward to helping you.
I removed them all and resubmitted.
shows it read it fairly quick after adding, 3 of 5 failed. they show “General HTTP error”.
I will monitor to see results later.
Last read
12/11/24
Sitemap index processed successfully
Sitemaps read
Sitemap Last read Status Discovered URLs Discovered videos
/category-sitemap.xml Dec 11, 2024 Success 4 0
/dipi_testimonial-sitemap.xml Couldn’t fetch 0 0
/page-sitemap.xml Couldn’t fetch 0 0
/post-sitemap.xml Couldn’t fetch 0 0
/web-story-sitemap.xml Dec 11, 2024 Success 3 0
Hello,
Please follow this guide to troubleshoot the couldn’t fetch issue: https://rankmath.com/kb/couldnt-fetch-error-google-search-console/
If everything is fine on your end, and Google still returns the error, please note that not all sitemaps are processed by Google. Not necessarily because there is something wrong with the sitemap.
Even a perfect sitemap may not be processed by Google.
Most of the time, it’s still sitting in the queue waiting for processing. Remember, Google is processing millions of sitemap daily, sometimes it takes time to get to yours. But for whatever reason, Google never gets around to some sitemaps. It just doesn’t think it is worth it.
And Search Console sometimes shows ‘Pending’ as ‘couldn’t fetch’ incorrectly. You can check the replies of Google experts for the Couldn’t Fetch(especially for the TLDs except for .com) issues on the following threads:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/29055233/missing-xml-sitemap-data-in-google-search-console-for-tld-domain?hl=en
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/31835653/sitemap-couldn-t-fetch-sitemap-couldn-t-be-read-by-google-search-console?hl=en
You can try using a different sitemap plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemap-generator-for-google/ to generate the sitemap and see if Google can read it. Please make sure to disable the Sitemap module of our plugin in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard.
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.
it may just be taking some time all have been read but post site map, it still shows Sitemap could not be read
General HTTP error. I will monitor a few more days and see it it clears and reads the post sitemap.
Hello,
That’s alright.
Just monitor the last read date for when it updates.
Don’t hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you.
