If you have been hit by the annoying Google search console bug where your sitemaps are not fetched, I finally found a solution that works 50% of the time.
[Update: This solution has been reported to not work for some users. If it does not work for you do comment below. If this did work for you or you found another solution, comment below and let others know! ]
This issue drove me nuts for almost 20 days now and I couldn’t find a solution to the issue literally anywhere on the web.
The big surprise is that a large number of users are affected by this issue. Even though:
Google just wouldn’t fetch it. Nada.
Without keeping you waiting, here’s the solution and I just stumbled upon it while trying to index our 8 new websites, so you can imagine the pressure our team was in for 20 days!
This should do it. It worked on all of the 8 websites. Don’t worry, even with the extra forward slash, Google search console will index the right URL!
I had the website verified in console as http:// yet the live website had an https:// and this means the the sitemaps had https://.
I deleted the http:// property and added it again as https:// and the sitemaps issue was fixed. I was using Yoast to generate the sitemaps.
Caleb
Did it work for you? Let me know down in the comments!
Okay this is working!! Thankyou!!
not working. still couldn’t fetch my sitemap..
not helping..
Have you tried:
1. Disabling all cache
2. Regenerating sitemap
3. Trying a different plugin to generate sitemap?
Hi John, if you could share your sitemap url that you are trying to submit, I could take a look and see if there’s anything wrong.
Thanks!
my website http://www.nblc.tk
// didn’t work for me, plz help
Hi, can you share your sitemap url that you are trying to submit? I could do a quick check to see if everything is okay.
Glad it worked out for you!
Have you tried:
1. Disabling all cache
2. Regenerating sitemap
3. Trying a different plugin to generate sitemap?
Can you share your sitemap url so I can verify that it is fetchable and valid?
I didn’t work please help me
Can you please share your sitemap url please. I’ll take a look.
Are you using wordpress?
Yes, worked for me first time – thank you, such a relief!
Glad your sitemap got fetched! Thanks for taking the time to write.
I know, Tell me about it, huh!
Although I don’t know why, but it worked for my site! Thanks so much.
Thanks for taking the time to comment here! Glad this helped you.
Thanks for letting us know!
hi https://www.ketoplan.tk//sitemap.xml but not working
Sitemap looks good, Have you tried:
1. Disabling all cache
2. Regenerating sitemap
3. Trying a different plugin to generate sitemap?
Worked. Incredible. Thats a bug.
Thanks
Yes, unfortunately, it seems the same to me too.
Yesss it worked thank you
Glad this helped!
You can try to change your site map plugin..I had the same problems and changed my site map plugin on WordPress
// didnt work for me either
It didn’t work.
My sitemap is https://pisoenalicante.casa/sitemap.xml
Thanks!
Sitemap looks good, Have you tried:
1. Disabling all cache
2. Regenerating sitemap
3. Trying a different plugin to generate sitemap?
It works now. Thanks!!
Glad it worked out!
Not working here
http://www.joecontirc.com/20200423-054616_sitemap.xml
Sitemap looks good, Have you tried:
1. Disabling all cache
2. Regenerating sitemap
3. Trying a different plugin to generate sitemap?
Have you tried:
1. Disabling all cache
2. Regenerating sitemap
3. Trying a different plugin to generate a sitemap? eg. Yoast, SEOPress, Rankmath?
The // did not work for me. It seems everything is in order. Here is our sitemap: https://brokebankvegan.com/sitemap_index.xml. Has anyone had this issue resolved who didn’t get the “//” to work?
It didn’t work for me. still, error appeared.
Adding the extra forward slash worked! Thank you!
Worked, nice one. thanks!
Brilliant!!! Cheers, was doing my head in!
Glad it helped you out!
it did not work for me
i remove all my cache is it is the problem
I have tried all your 3 methods : 1. Disabling all cache; 2. Regenerating sitemap; 3. Trying a different plugin to generate sitemap
Still not working.
https://controsys.com
Did you try adding an extra “/” before your sitemap name? Also try adding individual sitemaps for posts, pages etc.
Didn’t work for me. I’m sure my sitemap is valid and fetchable.
https://ancaps.forumotion.com/sitemap.xml
I was too much worried about the lost traffic but then this worked like a charm! Kudos to you!
Hello. I use Blogger and here’s my sitemap url https://naijastories.ga/sitemap.xml
Still shows the error.
Site doesn’t even appear on Google search.
I am frustrated
Please help.
This works for me. But I’m really curious why is this the case and how did you go about finding this solution.
Thanks by the way,
– Rey
This bugged me for days, then I basically tried everything I could to fix this, and stumbled on this through trial and error
It worked for me
The additional slash worked! Thank you!
You’re welcome!
Alas! Thank you!
worked for me. Thankyou
Great, this is working. Thanks a lot
it worked, thanks
Wow! That extra slash worked! Thank you!
Sadly it did not work for me, still couldnât fetch my sitemap.
I’ll try a different plugin to generate sitemap, I am using yoast seo
not working for http://jamexupvc.com/sitemap_index.xml
can you pls help me
This worked, i did it on the first slash e.g. https://examplesite.com//sitemaps/page-sitemap.xml
its not working for me.
in the live URL it shows fetching is successful.
My link is https://uggoalsuk.000webhostapp.com/sitemap.xml
Although this solution didn’t work for me here is what worked.
I had the website verified in console as http:// yet the live website had an https:// and this means the the sitemaps had https://.
I deleted the http:// property and added it again as https:// and the sitemaps issue was fixed. I was using Yoast to generate the sitemaps.
Worked for me đ
Thanks a mill
That worked! Thank you.
it worked for me!
Happy it worked for you, yoon
It worked. I tried a 100 things in last 4 days. Didn’t know it was this simple.
Thank you.
Glad that worked for you!
Good to hear, Ghulam
I CANT BELIEVE IT WORKED. Thank you so much,
Glad that helped! Keep WordPressing!
Glad this helped!
Try a different plugin and check your caches. Have you tried regenerating the sitemap?
Hey, thank you for your great solution!
Could you tell how did you figure out this ?)
Thank you very very very very much…
In my case, there is one sitemap under sitemap_index that google can’t fetch… I dont know why.
So I resubmit that particular child-sitemap whit this trick, and its status become “success”.
Thanks again.
Glad it worked, and yes, sometimes submitting the child sitemap needs to be done.
Didn’t work for me…
https://labour-of-love-india.myshopify.com/sitemap.xml
please help
Try to switch the plugin/module you are using to generate the sitemap. Let me know if that works
That worked for me! Thank you so much.
Hi,
My site map is submitted successfully but discovered URL shows zero now.
There were 37 URL indexed when I received âcould not fetchâ error on my post, pages and categories sitemaps.
Now, I dont see the post, categories and pages site maps that are submited inside main site map by yoast. Discovered URLs also turned to â0â
You need to submit individual child sitemaps again on search console. That should do it.
Thanks! I ended up with two slashes before //sitemap.xml/ – plus at the end. And that did it!
Hi, Didnt work for me. can you check the sitemap?
https://www.mastermoreno.co.il
the sitemap is https://www.mastermoreno.co.il/sitemap_index.xml
Sitemap looks good, try to generate sitemaps using another plugin:
1. SEOPress
2. Yoast
3. Rankmath
4. All in One SEO
Sitemap looks good, you might want to either try other plugins, not a fan of yoast. Try SEOPress.
Worked for me. Thank you brother. Would have hugged you if you were near to me now
Happy it worked for you Rajesh!
Many thanks indeed Purushottam Kiri ! It worked straight away for me.
http://www.robinmacbeth.art
Glad I could Help Seon!
Its 2021 and Covid lockdown made me learn about SEO.
Your page has contributed to my learning, so I thank you brother đ
Glad this was of help Ron!
Worked great. Thank you for the help!!
You are welcome, glad I could help Dean!
it didn’t work for me can you help me please i am trying this from many days https://www.moviez2watch.tk/ please help me
Try these:
1. Try regenerating sitemaps.xml using another plugin. Some Good Plugins: SEOPress, Yoast, All in One SEO, Rankmath
2. Clear cache, if using cloudflare, enable development mode
3. Disable all cache
4. If problem still persists, contact your hosting provider as some providers block google bot, maybe whitelisting will help there.
Great , thanks for your resolution !!
But one query in my mind is whether the URL https://mysite.com/sitemap.xml and https://mysite.com/sitemap_index.xml are same? Previously i put the url https://mysite.com/sitemapindex.xml. So currentlyi can see success message but nothing inside it.
No they are not same. A good way would be to visit the Sitemap URL in the browser to see if it has your website links listed down.
Thanks for saving me from a sleepless night of trying to figure out what was wrong on my end!
Haha, I was pretty close to pulling my hair out before I stumbled across this! It took me about 7-8 days of poking around to finally come up with this solution!
Glad it helped!
Hi Purushottam,
Your method is still working. if you are a wordpress user just add “/sitemap_index.xml” as it is.
Worked Like a charm, Thanks a ton.
Glad it worked for you!
Yes, it really worked. It is silly but work đ Thank you very much. But I want to take attention, only put the sitemap url after the main site address and put the extra slash next to the ‘last’ slash.
I made some mistakes first, so I wanted to take attention đ
Happy this worked for you! happy rankings!