When submitting sitemap to google says “Couldn’t fetch”

It says “During live testing, indexing issues were detected with the URL”

@kristinubute

Sorry to hear about your sitemap. We have some questions:

1. Can you please confirm if you are on the latest Yoast SEO 17.8?
2. Can you share your sitemap URL so we can check?
3. Can you share a screenshot of the error?

How do I share a screenshot in here ?

Hi @kristinubute

You can upload a screenshot to a website like snipboard.io or imgur.com and share a link here. Please also do share your sitemap URL so we can check and see if the sitemap is loading on our end. We do know that sometimes Google Search Console does indeed report a false positive/incorrect ‘couldn’t fetch’ error (as per this forum thread) and this resolves after a day or two, once it has been able to crawl and update the status, so you may want to check and monitor that as well.

I can see everything in the sitemap no issues …

Yes I have the latest Yoast SEO installed

https://snipboard.io/yiAqEm.jpg

When I submit the sitemap I get: Sitemap submitted
https://snipboard.io/BxRrZ8.jpg

Bit concerned about what has caused it or happened and HOW to rectify it.
Google has never had issues BEFORE reading the sitemap up until recently.

https://snipboard.io/QOu706.jpg

When opening the Sitemap in Google Webmaster NO issues and you can see everything all normally.

https://snipboard.io/qENzya.jpg
I’ve requested INDEXING also BUT

This is so frustrating as I’ve never had issues with sitemaps before.
Hasn’t resolved for over 3 months.

I also found here it says “URL will only be indexed if certain conditions are met.
LINK to this
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289#will_i_be_indexed

Can’t see anything in there that will help.
The website has been indexed for over 10 years so not sure WHY all of a sudden in last 4 months it cannot read the sitemap.

Hope my information helps to resolve the issue.

THnaks
Kristin

HI

Any ideas on how to fix this issue ?

It’s not reading the sitemap properly anymore.

Thanks
Kristin

I can see in google searches, that other people had same issues, and others had to try another plugin and worked.

I really don’t want to try another plugin, but if I cannot resolve it, I will have to.

I tried the XML Sitemap validation tool – https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
Says:

Sitemap is valid	No
Warnings	-
Errors	

    Incorrect http header content-type: "" (expected: "application/xml")

What does this mean ?

Regards
Kristin

* Sitemap has correct https://
* I can read the contents of the sitemap if I put into Google
* Google will NOT read it anymore – Incorrect http header
* I have NO www in front as website it https://domainname.com.au
* Sitemap validator error (as above)
* Google cannot fetch
* Tried Google Search Console using the URL Inspection Tool – says URL is not on Google
Tried to request Indexing and it does NOT
* Says INDEX REQUEST REJECTED **

All cache has been cleared and it is NOT this.

So frustrating as I’ve never had this issue for a client before.

Thanks in advance.

Regards
Kristin

Hi @kristinubute

We’re trying to access your website and the respective sitemap (/sitemap_index.xml) but it looks like the website isn’t loading as expected – https://snipboard.io/7xurEk.jpg

Could you please first check if the website is accessible from your end?

Hi,

This thread has been marked as resolved due to lack of activity by original poster.

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

Sorry website is back up and running, the SSL had expired and as client is NOT on my servers.

Website is back up , it was down for a few days only.

Now if you can look and investigate I still have the SAME ISSUE with Google fetching the sitemap please ?

I need to fix this urgently somehow

Thanks
Kristin

I’ve still got same issue with client
Google not fetching

Anyone have any further ideas ?

I need to somehow resolve for the client.

Thanks
Kristin