Sitemap error – This is not a valid URL.

#229313
  • Resolved School Site Press
    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I checked my Google Search Console today and noticed that my post sitemap.xml is being flagged for errors. I had a look and I think the flagged URL’s are related to Elegant Themes because they have ET in their URL’s.

    https://prnt.sc/1c20tzz

    Whatever is causing the issue could be affecting my SEO.

    Can you please let me know what you think about this matter and if I need to do anything?

    I thought I’d better let you know 🙂

    Many thanks,
    Neil.

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  • I’ve just found another instance where this flagged URL in Google Search Console is listed. Here under RankMath / Posts

    https://prnt.sc/1c264uc

    Kind regards,
    Neil.

    Ankit
    Rank Math business

    Hello,

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

    I have checked your sitemap and it appears to be working fine, I even validated with this tool.

    Here is the screenshot:
    https://i.rankmath.com/M8g36q

    Could you please consider resubmit your sitemap?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

    Hi Ankit,

    Thank you checking my sitemap and confirming that is it all okay. I guess my only concern is that Google is king and it’s the Google Search Console platform which is telling me there’s an issue.

    I have re-submitted the post sitemap and the search console still says there are 22 errors with the post sitemap. I do like things to be right of course so I’m just double checking to see if the errors can be rectified instead of ignoring them.

    Kind regards,
    Neil.

    Hello,

    These page/post sitemap errors are caused by the use of dynamic images on your site.

    The images do have encoded URL format within the sitemap as well. You can see this in the screenshot here: https://i.rankmath.com/ii9MjE

    Due to this, you will need to reach out to the Divi team to fix this on how they link out these images and we will do the same from our end.

    Hope this clarifies your issues here. If you have any further question(s), please let us know.

    Hi Jaideep,

    Thank you for getting back to me. I’ll let Elegant Themes / Divi know but if you can let them know too, I know it would carry more weight if it comes from you as well 🙂 RankMath is now very popular with Divi Theme users and any improvement to RankMath is always appreciated.

    Thank you for your help.

    Kind regards,
    Neil.

    Hello,

    We are glad that we were able to address your concerns. We are constantly working on improving our plugin. We are also checking this on our end but as the links are being generated by the Divi and Rank Math is only fetching and adding them to the sitemap, this is something that can be fixed by them.

    Hope this clarifies your doubts. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need any other assistance.

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