Google Console Error: Couldn’t Fetch – Sitemap could not be read

  • Resolved moyber

    (@moyber)


    4 years, 9 months ago

    I have submitted the Yoast Plugin sitemap to Google Console several times but in all the attempts this error always shows: ‘Couldn’t fetch’ in Status.
    “Sitemap could not be read”

    I do all the tests suggested by google apparently everything is fine

    • This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by moyber.

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  • abctowing

    (@abctowing)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    I lived with a crawl problem for about a year….
    submitted but not indexed.

    Then i hired a guy to take a look.

    He simply disabled the yoast schema in Features Tab.
    then installed a separate sitemap xml plugin.

    My problem was solved.

    My comment is not meant to be critical of Yoast products, but i was naive enough to think there is one single product plug-in that will handle everything seo related; and do it perfectly. I was wrong. I stressed over that sitemap crawl for months. Im not sure what was “wrong” with the yoast sitemap configuration, but all I know is the problem went away in an instant when i switched to a single sitemap plugin – and thats all it does.

    good luck

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by abctowing.
    Pcosta88

    (@pcosta88)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    Hi @moyber

    We apologize for the difficulties you are having with the plugin. We are not sure why that is happening. We can see your sitemap load as expected here https://magicfiber.com/sitemap_index.xml.

    We suggest the following actions:

    1. Clear all your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser. If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/.

    2. Delete your sitemap in Google. Doing so will not hurt the SEO of the site. This guide explains more (scroll to the bottom): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en.

    3. Re-Submit the sitemap one last time. Be sure to submit only sitemap_index.xml and nothing else. This guide explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/submit-sitemap-search-engines/.

    4. Monitor the results to see if the issue resolves and pages get indexed.

    • This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by Pcosta88.
    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    4 years, 9 months ago

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

    emmanuelj

    (@emmanuelj)

    4 years, 5 months ago

    am having the same issue

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