GSC could not fetch our sitemap

Hello Juan,

Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin.

Unfortunately, Google doesn’t provide any more information about why they cannot read the sitemap. The sitemap loads correctly in the browser.

1. Are you submitting the correct sitemap URL of sitemap_index.xml?
2. Does Google see the sitemap when checking the URL in the Structured Data Testing Tool?
3. Does the URL inspection tool‘s live test show any errors with the sitemap URL? If yes, please resolve the errors.
4. Did you submit the sitemap to the Google Search Console profile that matches the preferred URL format? Your site has HTTPS/non-WWW format

If you’ve checked everything above, please contact Google for further assistance here.

Google doesn’t provide any more information about why they cannot read the sitemap

Google responds with ‘couldn’t fetch’; that’s not helpful enough. That’s what I meant by Google not providing information about why they can’t read the sitemap

Does the URL inspection tool‘s live test show any errors with the sitemap URL?

What you tested is your homepage URL, and you can see that page was fetched. No referring sitemap means the URL wasn’t discovered from your sitemap but elsewhere on the web

One of our team member already did but we didn’t get any solution. (https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/214802551)

Your post back then was about sitemap.xml, which Yoast SEO doesn’t generate. Also, sitemaps couldn’t fetch is a recurrent issue posted in the Google Search Central Help Community, and it’s believed to be an issue with Google Search Console. You can search the community yourself.

If your sitemaps load fine in the browser, the problem is with Google, not your sitemap file. Some other users in the community have reported success when they submit the non-pretty permalink version of the sitemap: https://domain.com/?sitemap=1

I’m not sure why it showing Oct 22, 2022 under last read.

That’s the last time Google crawled the sitemap, though you re-submitted it on May 30, 2023. The success status doesn’t mean all URLs in the sitemap have been crawled all over again. It’s a status to acknowledge your submission not the status of crawling. It has also been said in the community that Google Search Console shows ‘Pending’ as ‘couldnt fetch’ incorrectly. Meaning, it’s not that it can’t fetch the sitemap; crawling is just pending

May I know why GSC is still fetching wrongsitemap.xml file even if we have redirected it to sitemap_index.xml file

There’s an expected 301 redirect from https://anbstudio.asia/sitemap.xml to https://anbstudio.asia/sitemap_index.xml. Those individual sitemaps in your screenshot don’t exist; Google shows you the status from the last time /sitemap.xml/ was crawled.

Also, submitting multiple sitemap indexes to the console is not advisable; you must stick to one. That’s why I recommended submitting the non-pretty permalink version of the sitemap – https://anbstudio.asia/?sitemap=1 and see if that makes a difference

Hello Juan,

As I mentioned before, it’s known that couldn’t fetch could mean pending. So please allow a few more days since you just resubmitted https://anbstudio.asia/?sitemap=1”.

I don’t have an estimate of how long it takes. Please contact Google for further assistance here.