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Sitemap cannot be read by GSC

#22658

Resolved Gourab Bhattacharjee
5 years ago

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Sitemap cannot be fetched by GSC,
I am posting screenshots, help needed.

I have manually created sitemap and it’s successfully fetched! Issue with the plugin? help needed.

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Todd
5 years ago

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Hello Gourab,

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, 12 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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