Sitemap blocked by robots.txt

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

We checked your sitemap and it seems to be loading just fine.

Your website’s robots.txt should also allow your sitemap to be crawled by the bot as you can see in the screenshot below:

The sitemap error “Couldn’t Fetch” that you might come across is most likely a bug with Google Search Console. To troubleshoot more on this, please follow this detailed guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/couldnt-fetch-error-google-search-console/#num-1-configure-your-sitemap.

Looking forward to helping you with this one.

Hello,

We have doubled checked your sitemap again on our end and we can confirm the sitemap is loading just fine as you can see in the screenshots below:

To further address the issue with GSC, please try following the steps below:

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/

3. Add the filter code to your theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

4. Remove all your sitemaps again from your Google Search Console and resubmit only the primary one (sitemap_index.xml).

Looking forward to helping you with this one.