Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and we regret the inconvenience caused.
I checked and the sitemaps are working properly.
Please follow the below steps and see if that fixes the issue:
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. 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
.
Further, give Google some time to crawl your website again and see if the issue gets fixed.
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
Thanks for the reply.
I followed all the steps mentioned above. Is there a way to ask Google to crawl my website?
Hello,
Google crawls the sitemap and website automatically according to the crawl budget of the website.
You can only submit individual URLs for crawling/indexing using the URL Inspection Tool in the Google Search Console.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hi,
I followed all the above-mentioned steps still the “General HTTP error” isn’t resolved.
Should I wait for a few more days or what should I do?
One more thing my website is properly indexed in Bing, But I am having issues with indexing my website on google.
Hello,
We tested your sitemap and it’s already giving out the correct header so to try and trigger Google to crawl the sitemap again you can delete the sitemap from Google Search Console and submit it again following this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
Hope this helps solve your issues.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hi Miguel,
I have already resubmitted the sitemap twice in the past 5 days. Still, I’m getting “General HTTP error” for the https://www.famoustarz.com/post-sitemap.xml
Hello,
I checked your sitemap, it is working fine, however, two variations of the sitemap are returning 200 status, you can check using https://httpstatus.io/:
Please ensure that only 1 version of the sitemap is working (200 status), and the rest are redirecting to it.
Please follow the steps in this link:
https://rankmath.com/kb/couldnt-fetch-error-google-search-console/#5-check-for-the-correct-version-of-the-sitemap and redirect to the correct version.
Once done, clear your website cache and resubmit the sitemap in the Search Console.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thanks Anas.
The sitemap error has gone. I hope my site gets indexed in a few days.
Thanks once again.
Cheers!
Hello,
Glad that helped.
Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.
We are here to help.
Thank you.