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Hi @lukelol thanks for reaching out to us. Could you please provide us the sitemap URL as well as check what errors are getting dumped inside the error log file when you try the version 4.1.7?

Hi @loc_rabbirt could you please delete the physical sitemap.xsl file at all? It will be under following path: /wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl — so when you delete the file, it will still generate the sitemap and Google search console can parse it. Usually we recommend using sitemap.xml for better human readability but there seems like an odd file permission issue in your case. So please try this last option and let me know! Thanks again.

Ok @wplike75 thanks for responding back. This seems like a glitch. We will try to reproduce and fix this in our upcoming major release. As of now, you keep the ID over there and it won’t affect your sitemap homepage in any way. Thanks.

Hi @djswagman – I have noticed that many of your site pages do not appear under Google results while many do. Could you please go to Google search console > select the website from the property dropdown > Provide the URL inside the top inspect URL input box > click on Test live URL

If Google returns any results, please check if you can fix it because they are related to that specific page and not the sitemap plugin. And if there are no errors then can you please click on request for indexing? Thanks.

Hi @robinrsa – you can now even use the page: https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/advanced/ and select development version from the dropdown list and press download. Thanks.

Hi @rkrenzis https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/google-sitemap-generator/tags/4.1.7/ is fixed now. Thanks

Hi @loc_rabbirt – There must be some directory permissions which are preventing the sitemap to read the XML file. If you can adjust the WordPress directories and files permissions and then try hitting the sitemap URL please? It will work. Thanks

Hi @robinrsa perhaps that’s the issue related to SVN tag, I will get it checked. Meanwhile if you can manually download using this URL: https://downloads.www.ads-software.com/plugin/google-sitemap-generator.zip Thanks.

Hi @rkrenzis – thanks for raising the issue, I will check that out as soon as possible and update you back here.

Hi @buddha1822 – yes, Google recommends the sitemap index size to be less than 50 MB, so you can try with 100 links per page and let me know the results back. Thanks.

Hi @wplike75 – thanks for providing all the details. Question: I believe you must have tried to manually remove the home page ID from the excluded posts list already but when you save the settings, it reappears?

@ant385 – glad I could help.

@djswagman – Please try resubmitting your sitemap XML to the Google search console. We have checked that the sitemap gets generated well and is also accessible so there must be something else. Also, we have randomly tried putting multiple links to your site into Google search and all of them redirected us to the post page rather than the home page one. The posts have canonical URLs also set up properly. Please provide us with more details with examples if you feel there is a problem. Thanks.

Hi @buddha1822, thanks for the feedback. Settings 100 links per page with a sitemap as giant as yours would be fine. Google recommends any sitemap have less than 50K URLs and an uncompressed size of up to 50 MB. So right now you can extend up to 100 links or else keep 40 links as it is.

Hello @wplike75, Thanks for raising the concern. Would you be comfortable providing us your sitemap URL as well as a screenshot of your settings? Thanks – it will help us debug correctly.

Could you please momentarily change the permission of your XSL file to 755 and check again? It seems like the web server is not allowed to read the file. If it doesn’t work then please roll back and inform us, and We will provide you with some alternatives. Thanks