Site Not Indexing in Search Engines

  • I have a theme (ENIGMA) free version. that’s not indexing my posts and pages I don’t know why but I suspect its from the header.php, now I install Yoast to make things right tried viewing the sitemap to see what’s and what’s not indexing in the sitemap then discovered this error

    XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.nantsfct.org.ng/sitemap_index.xml
Line Number 1, Column 2:	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="//www.nantsfct.org.ng/main-sitemap.xsl"?>
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    I used Yoast WordPress SEO and also tried xml-sitemap.com and this where the sitemap should show “https://www.mywebsite.com/sitemap_index.xml&#8221; but it return the same error message.

    am thing of adding some header properties that will index without spoiling anything.

    The code below is what I have in the header.php

    </blockquote>
<!DOCTYPE html>
 <!--[if lt IE 7]>
    <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8 lt-ie7"> <![endif]-->
    <!--[if IE 7]>
    <html class="no-js lt-ie9 lt-ie8"> <![endif]-->
    <!--[if IE 8]>
    <html class="no-js lt-ie9"> <![endif]-->
    <!--[if gt IE 8]><!-->
<html <?php language_attributes(); ?>><!--<![endif]-->
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>" charset="<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
	<title><?php wp_title( '|', true, 'right' ); ?></title>
	<?php $wl_theme_options=get_option('enigma_options'); ?>
	<?php if($wl_theme_options['upload_image_favicon']!=''){ ?>
	<link rel="shortcut icon" href="<?php  echo $wl_theme_options['upload_image_favicon']; ?>" />
	<?php } ?>
	<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body <?php body_class(); ?> id="">
<div>
	<!-- Header Section -->
	<div class="header_section" >
		<div class="container" >
			<!-- Logo & Contact Info -->
			<div class="row ">
				<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12">
					<div claSS="logo">
					<a>" title="<?php echo esc_attr( get_bloginfo( 'name', 'display' ) ); ?>" rel="home">
					<?php
					if($wl_theme_options['text_title'] =="on")
					{ echo get_bloginfo('name'); }
					else if($wl_theme_options['upload_image_logo']!='')
					{ ?>
					<img src="<?php echo $wl_theme_options['upload_image_logo']; ?>" style="height:<?php if($wl_theme_options['height']!='') { echo $wl_theme_options['height']; }  else { "80"; } ?>px; width:<?php if($wl_theme_options['width']!='') { echo $wl_theme_options['width']; }  else { "200"; } ?>px;" />
					<?php } else { ?>
					Enigma
					<?php } ?>
					</a>
					<p><?php bloginfo( 'description' ); ?></p>
					</div>
				</div>
				<?php if($wl_theme_options['header_social_media_in_enabled']=='on') { ?>
				<div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12">
				<?php if($wl_theme_options['email_id'] || $wl_theme_options['phone_no'] !='') { ?>
				<ul class="head-contact-info">

<li><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i><a>"><?php echo $wl_theme_options['email_id']; ?></a></li>
<li><i class="fa fa-phone"></i><?php echo $wl_theme_options['phone_no']; ?></li>
				<?php } ?>
					<ul class="social">
					<?php if($wl_theme_options['fb_link']!='') { ?>
					   <li class="facebook" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Facebook"><a>"><i class="fa fa-facebook"></i></a>
					<?php } if($wl_theme_options['twitter_link']!='') { ?>
					<li class="twitter" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Twiiter"><a>"><i class="fa fa-twitter"></i></a>
					<?php } if($wl_theme_options['linkedin_link']!='') { ?>
					<li class="linkedin" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Linkedin"><a>"><i class="fa fa-linkedin"></i></a>
					<?php } if($wl_theme_options['youtube_link']!='') { ?>
					<li class="youtube" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="bottom" title="Youtube"><a>"><i class="fa fa-youtube"></i></a>
	                <?php } ?>

				</div>
				<?php } ?>
			</div>
			<!-- /Logo & Contact Info -->
		</div>
	</div>
	<!-- /Header Section -->
	<!-- Navigation  menus -->
	<div class="navigation_menu "  data-spy="affix" data-offset-top="95" id="enigma_nav_top">
		<span id="header_shadow"></span>
		<div class="container navbar-container" >
			<nav class="navbar navbar-default " role="navigation">
  		                 <div class="navbar-header">
					<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#menu">

					  <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
					  <span class="icon-bar"></span>
					  <span class="icon-bar"></span>
					  <span class="icon-bar"></span>
					</button>
				</div>

			<div id="menu-search">

		   		<div id="menu" style="float: left;">
		    <?php wp_nav_menu( array(
	            'menu'              => 'primary',
	            'theme_location'    => 'primary',
				'container'         => 'div',
				'container_class'   => 'collapse navbar-collapse',
				'container_id'      => 'menu',
				'menu_class'        => 'nav navbar-nav',
				'fallback_cb'       => 'wp_bootstrap_navwalker::fallback',
				'walker'            => new wp_bootstrap_navwalker())
				);?>

				</div>

</div>

			</nav>
		</div>
	</div>
	<!-- /Navigation  menus -->

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