Index sitemap showing one extra blank sitemap

  • Resolved valker95

    (@valker95)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,
    I’ve noticed that something is wrong with my sitemap because I get “This is not a valid URL. Please correct it and resubmit.” at line 23 in google search console. So I’ve looked into it and it shows that I’ve got 6 sitemaps instead of 5. I got one extra blank sitemap which shouldn’t be there. What I tried so far: deactivating the sitemap and reactivate, clearing the cache (litespeed cache) and still there. Also I’m using woocommerce. Thanks

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello Valker,

    Thank you for reaching out regarding your sitemap. I can confirm that the sitemap index reports having 6 sitemaps but I see only five. See screenshot. You mentioned having one extra blank sitemap which shouldn’t be there; I couldn’t see that from my end. Can you share the URL, please?

    Thread Starter valker95

    (@valker95)

    Hello and thank you for your help. The problem is that I don’t know which url or settings causing this is. In view source code, I get this blank line:
    <sitemap><loc></loc></sitemap></sitemapindex>
    which I supposed the url goes between loc tags. But I don’t know why this is not deleted by yoast if it’s empty..

    Thread Starter valker95

    (@valker95)

    Hello?
    Still can’t figure out this annoying problem.. If that helps this is from the source code of xml:
    <a href=""></a>
    Is there some way like a code snippet or anything just to remove extra sitemap?? or to edit it manually I don’t know…

    Hi, I am seeing the same issue. The sitemap returns an error at Google because of the empty entry at the end. I have tried turning everything off and on again but it still shows, eg (domain redacted):

    <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”//www.DOMAIN/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/main-sitemap.xsl”?>
    <sitemapindex xmlns=”https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9″&gt;
    <sitemap>
    <loc>https://www.DOMAIN/page-sitemap.xml</loc&gt;
    <lastmod>2022-07-04T15:23:47+00:00</lastmod>
    </sitemap>
    <sitemap><loc></loc></sitemap></sitemapindex>
    <!– XML Sitemap generated by Yoast SEO –>

    Is there any way to debug this?

    Thread Starter valker95

    (@valker95)

    Hi @steelemedia
    Do you use woocommerce too? And what cache plugin? Also I have a bunch of extra plugins for the woocommerce.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello, @valker95 and @steelemedia. I am sorry for the delay in responding.

    Please temporarily deactivate all other plugins and switch to a default theme to confirm how many individual sitemaps are reported in the sitemap_index.xml.

    Thread Starter valker95

    (@valker95)

    Hello, So in the end I found my problem, it is the woof – woocommerce products filter plugin. What I did I made a localhost backup of my site and experiment there. Tried changing the theme, and after deactivating my plugins one by one so I found that something is wrong with woof plugin with sitemaps. So I guess I will switch to another filter plugin or maybe tweak it’s settings or something if anybody knows.
    Thanks for your help !

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @valker95 Thanks for your reply and for posting your solution as well. We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved, but if you require any further assistance please let us know.

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