sitemap getting “Failed: Not found (404)” in Search Console

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  • Resolved Raven Chan

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi,

    I have been using Rank Math to manage my website’s sitemap for a while, but recently I found that in Google Search Console, it can;t fetch my sitemap, and finally I found that it has a 404 error.

    However, the xml is reachable in browser, and I didn;t change any setting in WordPress, can you please help?

    Attachment: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YtQj9kUxGi58dPo76

    Best regards,
    Raven

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  • Raven Chan

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Rank Math free

    After I deactivate a plugin called “Hide My WP”
    And I have got a new message on the Search Console page
    Attachment: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8z2fK1RTCaHT8tdo6

    Is this the normal status if I URL Inspection on a sitemap?

    Jeremy

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

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

    I can confirm that your sitemap is working fine when loaded in the browser as you can see in my screenshot below:

    browser

    Also went ahead and submitted your sitemap in an XML sitemap validator and it doesn’t return any errors:

    xml sitemap validator

    Can you please follow these steps?

    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. After that, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and resubmit only the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml).

    Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you with this one.

    Raven Chan

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi

    Thanks for your response.
    I found that it’s because of a plugin called “Hide My WP”, it has a function to block some IPs, after I unchecked “Enable trust network”, then everything is fine!

    Attachment: https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ZeHW8Emaagza2PH6

    Azib Yaqoob

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Sitemaps can’t be indexed by Google because they have an X robots noindex tag present in the HTTP header. Hence, Googlebot can only crawl and index new links from the sitemap. The sitemap itself won’t get indexed, hence when you inspect URL using GSC you will encounter such errors.

    I tested your site through the site search operator and found that around 250 URLs got already indexed by Google from your website.

    Just like my colleague has mentioned, your sitemap appears to be working fine.

    If you are experiencing any issues with specific URLs not getting indexed then let us know. We are here to assist.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you

    Raven Chan

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Rank Math free

    OK! Thanks!

    Miguel

    2 years, 11 months ago

    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.

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