404 erroe when I submit my sitemap to google from my webmaster dashboard

I am getting the same problem. In fact, it even says the following in the Settings:
“The URL to your sitemap index file is: https://puresync.com/sitemap.xml.
Google was successfully notified about changes.
Bing was successfully notified about changes.”

However I get page not found. Frustrating as I don’t seem to see any response to this problem which numerous people have posted.

Try actually going to google’s webmaster tools: webmaster.google.com.

They will provide you with step by step instructions for authenticating yourself as the site owner and you can manually submit your sitemap there. If there’s any issue, there are more sophisticated troubleshooting and reporting tools there as well.

I have authenticated my site in google webmaster tools previously. I am concerned tho that if I put in that sitemap url it will bounce and may cause problems. But I will check out the trouble shooting. Thanks

Google webmaster also got 404 page not found. They really dont seem to have any WP plugin advice. However, I find google very difficult to find answers to anything.

I had my site ma wrong. When I fixed it everything worked ok.

whats “ma”??

Hello there, I’m receiving this messages. Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead. Is it any problem with this plugin?, what I have to do now?

Try this. After generating your Sitemap, create a web page with the same file name shown on the Sitemap, ie: sitemap.xml. Then you can submit https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml to Google Sitemap. This should fix the 404 error

Site map. Sorry.

Fixed.

@backroadsliving – What did you do to fix it? I’m having the same exact issue … Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!

I used this one instead, very easy.
https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/google-xml-sitemap/

Thanks for the tip gpanek. I installed and activated but don’t see settings on admin side. Does this plugin create the sitemap after being activated?

I installed WordPress SEO Plugin by Yoast and it generates your Site Map. You can sumit these to Google through the Google Webmaster Tools and they should be fine. Tha is what I did anyway nad it has worked fine for me. Hope this helps.

yes, its very simple. no settings but the site map is created and sent out to google and bing, i believe.