Sitemap Discovered URLs (0)

Hello,

We understand that the Google Search Console reports “0 discovered URLs” for your sitemap. Can you confirm if this is for the sitemap index or the individual sitemaps?
This is because there is a difference between the sitemap index (/sitemap_index.xml) and the child sitemaps (/post-sitemap). The discovered URLs for the index do not appear until all the child sitemaps have been processed.

Can you also provide the URL of your site?

Can you confirm if this is for the sitemap index or the individual sitemaps?

This is for the “sitemap index”

Here is the website URL.

https://bohatala.com/

and this is the URL for sitemap https://bohatala.com/sitemap_index.xml

If you check this Screenshot you”ll see https://prnt.sc/y04yfo

@findsteps Thanks for your reply. The message of ‘Discovered URLs’ that you see in Google Search Console, that just means that the URL was found by Googlebot by other means instead of via the sitemap. Google has discovered the link without the use of the sitemap from other sources such as internal links on your own site, or an external site, for example.

That is what i want to fix, That suppose to be discovered by sitemap in that way all of the links indexed properly. I have difficulties in URL indexing in google. I cant find my latest articles in google search.

So let me know what i need to do so i submit the sitemap again so child sitemaps discovered by google.

@findsteps

We understand that you submitted the sitemap again. Be sure to submit only sitemap_index.xml and nothing else. This guide explains more:?https://kb.yoast.com/kb/submit-sitemap-search-engines/.

Monitor the results to see if the issue is resolved. It can take some time before Google can report on the crawled URLs after you re-submit your sitemap, especially if your website is large.

Meanwhile, could you please provide us some recently published example URLs that you think are not indexed in Google so that we can take a look and verify them?

This is the main issue that child sitemaps google didn’t read. I was waiting for days/weeks but there is no progress in this. Attached screenshot. Kindly take a look.

https://prnt.sc/y56vfz

GoogleBot Crawl the site own its own but not from site map, so thats why i got issues in the ranking.

If the premium Version of Yoast or support help me in this, let me know. I will go for the purchase.

I have search some of the articles from my website and URL inspection all of the them into “Indexed, not submitted in sitemap”.

Major issue is google crawl latest Posts from referring page from internal Articles. This is not the correct way. I want that google should crawl the sitemap properly.

@findsteps

We went ahead and inspected your site’s robots.txt file and noticed there are some additional rules added and sitemaps links are being included from it.

The robots.txt standard supports adding a link to your XML sitemap(s) to the file. This helps search engines to discover the location and contents of your site.

But we’ve always felt that this was redundant; as you’ve already added your sitemap to your Google Search Console in order to access analytics and performance data, you don’t need the reference in your robots.txt file. We suggest you to remove those sitemap links.

We usually recommend the file to look clean like this:

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /wp_admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

This would allow GoogleBot to crawl all the links on your site and better understand how the pages are viewed and displayed. This guide explains more:?https://yoast.com/ultimate-guide-robots-txt/. We have additional recommendations on robots.txt here:?https://yoast.com/wordpress-robots-txt-example/.

Please note the above suggestion is to optimize your robots.txt for better crawlability of your website.

We understand that your main concern is why Google is unable to discovered URLs from the sitemap. Technically, we looked at a recent post published (21hrs ago) like https://bohatala.com/trans-saharan-gas-pipeline/ and we can see Yoast is outputting the right data on it and is also indexed by Google on search result page.

The sitemap is generating pages correctly on it: https://bohatala.com/sitemap_index.xml

There is nothing about the Yoast plugin that is causing the issue. It is working as expected. We think there is an issue with Google and its ability to crawl the sitemap. We suggest contacting Google for more information as to why they are not able to crawl pages that have the right data on it and are showing a 200 OK status. You may contact Google by making a post on their forums: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/webmasters.

In continuing to my earlier response, while checking the page source of your website I just noticed that you’ve installed the Yoast SEO Premium plugin on your website.

If you’ve an active subscription, for questions about these products, please contact our support team directly, we do know it comes with technical support to do possible troubleshooting further and try to resolve it.

I did that already to create a Topic on google webmaster community, So far i didn’t get any satisfactory answer regarding the issue.

You may check here.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/95486724?hl=en

I do make some changes to your suggestions.

Make the Robots.txt file as default and delete the old sitemap from google search consle and add a new sitemap again. I have done this on 4th FEB 2021 and today 9th FEB 2021. So far google didnt read the sitemap from last date.

https://prnt.sc/yuvwt5

What you think what might be the major issue in this.

Regards

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