Sitemap couldnt fetch

Hello,

We’re sorry to hear that you’re encountering the “Couldn’t fetch” error when trying to submit your sitemap on Google Search Console. This can be a frustrating issue, but we’re here to help you troubleshoot it.

To address this problem, we recommend following the steps outlined in our knowledgebase article on troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console. You can find the article here.

The article provides detailed instructions on how to diagnose and fix potential sitemap errors that may be causing the “Couldn’t fetch” error. It includes steps such as renaming the sitemap file, fixing sitemap issues, validating your sitemap, ensuring the sitemap is located in the root folder, and more.

If you’ve already tried these steps and are still facing the issue, please feel free to reach out to our support team directly from the article, and we’ll be more than happy to assist you further.

We hope this information helps you resolve the issue. If you have any other questions or need further assistance, please don’t hesitate to ask.

Sources:
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math

Hello,

Apologies for the inconvenience.

Could you please share the sitemap URL so we can check it as well?

You can add it in the sensitive data section

It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We checked and tested your sitemap using https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html Sitemap validator tool and found your sitemap to be functional and without errors:

Perhaps clearing the cache and excluding the files from being cached resolved the issue.

According to John Mueller, if the sitemaps are valid and still aren’t functioning or couldn’t be read, then changing the name of the sitemap file can do the magic.

In Google Search Console, head over to Indexing → Sitemaps. In the Add a new sitemap setting, paste the below sitemap URL and click SUBMIT.

https://yourdomain.com/?sitemap=1

Let us know how this goes.

Hello,

We’ve tried to check your sitemap and we can see it is currently returning a 404 error. In this case, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you.

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. If the above steps don’t seem to work, kindly apply the following filter to your site.

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

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Once done, clear your website cache, remove all the submitted sitemap, and resubmit only the /sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.