Hello,
Thank you for contacting the support and we regret the inconvenience caused.
I checked and the sitemap on your website is redirecting the homepage. Please add the below filter to the website:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
You can follow this guide to add the filter:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Once done, please flush the sitemap’s cache by following this screencast again and see if the sitemap loads: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
Let us know how that goes.
Thank you.
I added this fix and am still receiving the same error.
Hello,
I can see that the sitemap is loading properly now.
Please clear your website’s cache and remove all the sitemaps from your Google Search Console account, and then submit only the main sitemap: /sitemap_index.xml
Here’s a guide with more details: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
Further, give Google some time to crawl your website again and see if that fixes the issue.
Google would be able to see the sitemap only once it crawls the website again. So, you’ll need to wait until the website is crawled again.
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
I have resubmitted this over and over. The sitemaps randomly give errors and are fetched as HTML. This has been happening every 1-3 days.
Hello,
I checked the sitemap, it is working fine.
The sitemap is also validated without any errors. Check the screenshots in the sensitive data section.
Can you please remove all the sitemaps from the Search Console and add ?sitemap=1 instead of the sitemap_index.xml? It will do the same job as that of renaming the sitemap file.
Let us know how it goes.
We are here to assist you.
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.
