Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The couldn’t fetch error is a pretty common error when submitting new sitemaps to the search console. This should not cause any concern since the error normally goes away after a few days.
You will notice that the sitemap submitted by the other plugin is reading 0 discovered links which means that the fetching was not successful as well.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
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Thanks for your reply. It’s also showing Sitemap could not be read Error, is it normal?
Hi Delowar,
We would like to take a closer look at this issue.
Can you please edit the sensitive data section and share the below details with us?
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FTP Details
Add s******@r*********** as an owner of your website in Google Search Console.
We look forward to helping you fix this issue permanently.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
I’m also getting this error: https://d.pr/free/i/1l8PUP
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
I’ve added s******@r*********** email to the search console. Thanks
Hi Delowar,
Assuming Google’s unable to fetch the Sitemap is a bug on their end. Please read here
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/3280971?hl=en
It’s happening with other SEO plugins as well.
The most prominent reason behind that seems to be the introduction of the Indexing API
https://rankmath.com/blog/google-indexing-api/
Google has plans to drop the use of Sitemaps and allow indexing API.
With that said, if your Sitemap is opening fine and online tools, such as the below one, shows no error, you should be fine
https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html
With that said, always submit only the index of the Sitemap, which looks like this
https://rankmath.com/sitemap_index.xml
The noindex on sitemap is on purpose so that the sitemap doesn’t end up showing in SERPs.
I do not see any other issue and your pages seem to be indexed fine as well.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
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.
