netvision,
Uncheck Post Formats in your sitemap settings if you aren’t using them. Also, unless you have a very large site, you probably don’t need to be using sitemap indexes either.
Sorry for my terrible English but I can’t find “Post Formats” anywhere on sitemap settings. You probably mean Post Types.
I simply unchecked All “Post Types” under “Post Types” and then checked only Posts and Pages.
My site has 600 posts so should I uncheck sitemap indexes?
netvision,
Yes – uncheck sitemap indexes, that should fix this issue.
Hi netvision,
If your XML Sitemap has less than 50,000 URLs and is less than 10MB in size then you do not need to use Sitemap Indexes.
Hi,
I’m facing the same issue and that’s why I am here now. I don’t have any big sites. So, what should I need to do now?
Also, I am not getting the Post Formats option too. How may I fix that?
Thanks wpsmort, I simply give up using sitemap indexes. sumonbdinfo after unchecking sitemap indexes the issue solved. Everything seems fine with webmaster tools.
The XML Sitemap protocol is very clear on this issue. You should only ever use Sitemap Indexes if your XML Sitemap contains more than 50,000 URLs or if your XML Sitemap file size is greater than 10MB.
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
does anyone know how to instruct SEO WordPress by Yoast to NOT use sitemap index? It seems to do so automatically?
Hi sammond7,
You are posting in the wrong forum, please post your questions about the WordPress SEO plugin here – http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo