Sitemap HTTP 404 Errors – ‘noindex’ detected in ‘X-Robots-Tag’ http header

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us and we regret the inconvenience caused.

It is completely normal for the sitemap files to be set to No Index since you do not want them to be indexed on SERPs.

The sitemaps are intended to be crawled by the search engines but they are not to be indexed/displayed on the search results and hence the sitemaps are kept as No Index.

Also, keeping the sitemaps as No Index does not, in any way, prevent search engines from crawling it.

Regarding the 404 error, I checked your sitemaps and they are loading 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 (your-domin.com/sitemap_index.xml).

Further, give Google some time to crawl your website again and see if the issue is fixed.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thanks for your reply.

Currently, you will see the same results in your Google Search Console account, it would be updated when Google crawls your website again.

Your sitemaps are accessible to Google bots. Please have a look at the screenshot in the sensitive data section of this ticket.

Please wait until Google re-crawls your website and see if the issue gets fixed.

In the meantime, please let us know if we can assist you with anything else.

Thank you.