Remove XML sitemap links with status code other than 200

Hi @idhamou

It sounds like the sitemap is not being updated.

If you have installed a cache plugin, please check your settings and exclude the sitemaps from being cached. Please contact the support team for your cache plugin for more information on this.

If the issue exists, kindly check conflict.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

Please test this on your development or staging site if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts

• This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by Mushrit Shabnam.

Hello there,

i tested the sitemaps on the local project with the W3 Total Cache deactivated ,but the problem still exists.
so i try to test with the twentytwentyone theme, then i add this code to the theme’s functions.php file (to test urls with status code = 302 and 301):

function redirect_people_category() {
if (is_category('people') || is_singular() && has_category('people')) {
wp_redirect('https://www.google.com');
exit();
}
}
add_action('template_redirect', 'redirect_people_category');

i deactivate all plugins , except yoast.
but I always found people’s articles links in sitemaps, even those articles have 302 code (redirect to another ULR)

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by kwpknme.
• This reply was modified 1 month, 1 week ago by kwpknme.

Can you share some of the URLs with status code other than 200 present in your sitemap?

Hello
Let’s take https://www.mariefrance.fr/category-sitemap.xml as exemple :
there are categories that redirect to a sub-domain of mariefrance , for example :
* https://www.mariefrance.fr/belle-positive
* https://www.mariefrance.fr/belle-positive/bien-dans-ma-peau/beaute-bien-dans-ma-peau
* https://www.mariefrance.fr/belle-positive/bien-dans-ma-peau
* https://www.mariefrance.fr/belle-positive/bien-dans-ma-vie
* https://www.mariefrance.fr/belle-positive/bien-dans-mon-corps-belle-positive
* https://www.mariefrance.fr/belle-positive/bien-quand-jecoute

I know it’s possible to exclude categories from the BO by modifying the category and set
Allow search engines to show this Catégorie in search results? to no

But I also want to remove all permalink articles in these categories from the sitemaps.
There are other articles on our site that are redirected to other urls.urls.

Here’s another example:
url with redirection : https://www.mariefrance.fr/web-stories/jardin-voici-les-plantes-quil-ne-faut-surtout-pas-tailler-en-juin
sitemap : https://www.mariefrance.fr/web-story-sitemap.xml

Thanks for providing the examples; I confirmed the redirects. Do you own both websites, belle-positive and mariefrance? How were the redirects set up?

Yes we own both websites , the redirects are set in the theme using php ( wp_redirect() ).

Thanks.

Thanks for the clarification. However, the Yoast SEO-generated XML sitemap isn’t able to exclude URLs that are not redirected with Yoast SEO Premium

This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity by the original poster. The original poster can change the status to Not Resolved to re-open the issue or open a new topic.

If you are not the original poster but have a similar issue, please open a new topic.