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?
Here is the address of my website https://dsweb.ga/
Here is the sitemap https://dsweb.ga/sitemap_index.xml
I tried your way, I tried all your ways but it doesn't work for me. Could this be due to the fact that this is a free domain in the .ga zone? Perhaps Google deliberately refuses to index sitemaps in free domain zones?
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?
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!
I published my website over a month ago and it's still not indexed. I really hope that did that trick. After I added an extra slash, the status changed to "Success". But knowing googles algorithm, it still won't crawl my site right away.
// didn't work for me either
Also, I create the sitemap.xml using a couple of websites (all sitemaps created works for other websites).
I had the issue only for sitemap.xml, not for all sitemaps
I'm having the same problem, whether your blog is fixed?
Have you tried submitting individual sitemaps, for eg. try submitting just the post sitemap. You can find the link in your main sitemap file.
Thank you it worked for my site
Please Help Me!! I try all these 2 methods but the error has not fixed!!
Have you tried submitting individual sitemaps, for eg. try submitting just the post sitemap. You can find the link in your main sitemap file.
These are somethings that might help:
1. Submit sitemaps individually for categories
2. Submit another sitemap for just posts, then pages then your custom post types and taxonomies, if any
If nothing works, try using SEOPress free plugin, and submit individual sitemaps insead of your sitemap index.
Not working for my site in WordPress, I think regenerate may help
Have you tried submitting individual sitemaps, for eg. try submitting just the post sitemap. You can find the link in your main sitemap file.
Didnt work for me pls help me out
Have you tried submitting individual sitemaps, for eg. try submitting just the post sitemap. You can find the link in your main sitemap file. That should work.
These are somethings that might help:
1. Submit sitemaps individually for categories
2. Submit another sitemap for just posts, then pages then your custom post types and taxonomies, if any
Try Seopress free plugin, this is something we use on 90% of our websites. Might just help.
This worked like a charm. My client's website uses Yoast Premium and when the xml sitemap is toggled off, Google Search Console could fetch. When it's toggled on, the sitemap disconnects. I added the extra / with the sitemap toggled on and it solved the issue. Now I'll have to wait and see if GSC can fetch or not in the next day or so. If anyone wants to know, please comment and I'll post what happened.
WHEN I HAD ADD MY SITE IN GOOGLE SEACH CONSOLE MY PAGES ARE SHOWWING EXCLUDED BECAUSE OF ERROR IN ROBOT TXT.
I HAD TRIED AL THE WAY TO SOLVE THIS ERROR(DIV.CODEMIRROR-GUTTER-WRAPPER)
HOW CAN I FIX THIS....
Have you tried submitting individual sitemaps, for eg. try submitting just the post sitemap. You can find the link in your main sitemap file. Generally speaking, if your pages are excluded, it can happen for a couple reasons: First, low quality content, second, you might have another plugin that adds "noindex" to your pages. Install SEOBlueprint chrome extension and check for it.
Hey, it not working with me, also checked new Plugins for Sitemap facing the Same issue that Couldn't fetch.
Page and Post Sitemap URL is fetching but Index sitemap URL facing issue
If your page and post sitemaps are submitted, you are done, those pages will be crawled.
These are somethings that might help:
1. Submit sitemaps individually for categories
2. Submit another sitemap for just posts, then pages then your custom post types and taxonomies, if any
Not working brother!
My sitemap url: https://ayushgupta0202.github.io/sitemap.xml
Hi,
Even after adding multiple forward slashes, sitemap still could not be fetched.
If it is a domain property in search console submit the full URL without the www
example submit https://domain.com/sitemap.xml instead of https://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml
Site map could not fetch error, its already accessable from my side but error appearing from 1 month. can you please check for me.
https://www.almusamim.ga/sitemap.xml
I cannot do...
I made post using jekyll and did sitemap by jekyll-sitemap plugin.
Hi,
I submitted a sitemap but it shows an error
Under Google Search Console, my https // site: google.com/ company /sitemap.xml could not bring up the error as 404.
I try another way.
https // site: google.com/ company /sitemap.xml
https // site: google.com//company //sitemap.xml
https // site: google.com/ company //sitemaps.xml
https // site: google.com/ company /sitemaps.xml
Please tell me what i will do.
Thank you
Try switching your sitemap plugin and flushing permalinks
It's not working it's still showing couldn't fetch here's the URL to my sitemap- https://codewithdivs.000webhostapp.com/sitemap.xml please see this if there's any fault and let me know I'll be highly obliged to you.
Hi, this link shows a 404 error
Thanku FOr Posting This Article It Worked Was So Frustrated Bcz It Wasn't Getting Fetch But Your Article Helped me.
I was hoping that this would work. But it did not:(
https://www.tagbeansdigital.com/sitemap.xml
Tried clearing cache too.
Try this: Once you submit and get the error, just reload the page and see if the status changes from "Could'nt Fetch" To "Submitted"
It didn't worked for me. I'm not using WordPress. I'm using Ghost(Selfhost). My sitemap url is https://blog.zype.cf/sitemap.xml it is a Sitemap Index so I've tried adding child sitemaps but it didn't worked.
Thanks for sharing that Rajdeep
thanks so much. It worked for all my cancer charity sites that showed a 'could not fetch' As a result of this lives may be saved.
It still didn't work! (using blogger) Is there no other way?!
Hi "Distant Travels", these are somethings that might help:
1. Submit sitemaps individually for categories
2. Submit another sitemap for just posts.
hey purushottam sir can you please help me in fetching my site map. I had tried almost every technique to fix my site map but no one works for me I don't know what to do.I also tried your solution but I think I am doing wrong.Need your help
Hey there, are you using WordPress?
These are somethings that might help:
1. Submit sitemaps individually for categories
2. Submit another sitemap for just posts.
Finally, Finally, Finally. You are a legend dear Sir.
How the hell did you find that solution???
8 clients, 8 days, no sleep.
Didn't work for me. The url for my sitemap is https://tragency-media.herokuapp.com/sitemap.xml.
When I click on view sitemap it opens up the sitemap but for some reason it can't fetch it
Dear Admin,
Its not working with my site as fabbyweb.com and my all post are reindex. Could you help
Hello,
Since I changed from Yoast to AOISEO i have the issue with not fetching. I had tried the extra I as you mention and it does not work. I cleared my cache and also deactivated WP rocket after.... still did not work.... what i dont see is a way to regenerate a new sitemap in AOI since it says it is dynamic... it has all turned into a huge mess.... it was working fine in Yoast and now even when switching back is a mess
I think the best bet would be to contact support or browse and read problems other people have been facing at https://wordpress.org/search/fetch+intext%3A%22Plugin%3A+All+in+One+SEO+%E2%80%93+Best+WordPress+SEO+Plugin+%E2%80%93+Easily+Improve+SEO+Rankings+%26+Increase+Traffic%22
Hey friend,
I've done everything nothing fixed.
I even submitted the site maps individually but it still cannot fetch
hi my name is akbarali
https://infycarts.com/sitemap_index.xml . this site map is not getting to fetch
Have you tried submitting all the sitemaps individually?
Like: https://infycarts.com/post-sitemap.xml ?
It worked for me, thank you so much for the info! I submitted 3 individual URLs there for my sitemap. Could you tell me the process why this happened and how your trick worked? I'm curious to know the reason behind this.
Thank You!
Hello sir I tired from this message
Sitemap xml
Couldn't fetch
Also my url is online but I try this all methods Your but not working yet
Please tell me slotion
Have you tried submitting individual sitemaps from the sitemap index?
gives status code 520 couldn't fetch my sitemap
I USED THAT METHOD TO SUBMIT XMLSITE MAP.BUT ITS FAILE TO FETCH.CAN YOU SUGGEST ME OR CAN YOU DO TO FETCH MY XML SITE MAP ON GOOGLE
Typical google software. I submitted a sitemap and it said it was too big. Split it in half and it says it canât fetch it. Used the Open Sitemap and it loads. Used the double slash but it didnât help. You would think that with all that complicated search software they could come up with meaningful error messages.
Hello Sir,
I have same problem my sitemap couldn't fetch can you please help me out
It didn't work for me.
My sitemap index is https://wisemade.io/sitemap.xml, and I also tried to send the individual sitemap.
Worked for me today.
FYI using the built-in sitemap address for Opencart 3.
I didn't expect to receive any reply so quick and now my sitemap is fetched successfully.
Thank you so much!
Have tried both options listed.. I still get not fetched!
it is sill not working. I tried Yoast and Rank math in order to generate the sitemap and still not working at all
The //sitemap.xml did not work for me, and it's been two months. My sitemap (generated by Squarespace) is valid in every testing tool I can find. This is killing my business! I see no way to get my website searchable. There are no answers...anywhere. And Google has no humans. https://www.herocards.us/sitemap.xml
Ran into all the same problems. Switched plugins to use Yoast SEO. It will generate a sitemap page, but looking through the file manager, I'm not sure where it stores that XML file. Therefore if I can't find it, how is Google?
I ended up loading the Yoast sitemap page. Saving that page as an XML file and then saving it to the base of my website files. Give it a little time, and have Google Search check again for that file. Magically it finds it this time.
couldn't fetch... tried many times but still same message.
We also removed http property, still nothing.
Hi, It doesn't work for me. please help
here's my sitemap index https://routput.com/sitemap_index.xml
Please help me
https://hitechshading.com/
https://hitechshading.com/sitemap.xml
Wow thanks for the guide it worked for my post sitemap. Google couldn't fetch my post sitemap out of all sitemaps i submitted, but it show success after I tried adding it with extra forward slash
not work this is my sitemap: https://www.movieregit.ml/sitemap.xml
What plugin are you using?
I'm using Yoast plugin for sitemap... Is it ok to use it or should i go for Rank Math
I would recommend rankmath over yoast.
Thank you - Using the double forward slash worked. Mind you, yesterday when I submitted my sitemap.xml, I got a "success" message. But when I checked today, I noticed it now said "couldn't fetch" - this was
very surprising. In the past, it has sometimes taken me several attempts before achieving success.
Good luck to everyone having problems - keep trying and especially make sure that if your site is "https", don't submit pages with "http" indicated by mistake. Google now considers http pages not secure so they may not index them.
Not working, still couldn't fetch
It did not work for me. I am trying to get my sitemap for https://mysocial.info working. The sitemap URL is https://mysocial.info/sitemap.xml. I did not use a plugin to generate the sitemap, I built it programmatically.
I am tried all the methods you mentioned here.
But still I am getting Couldn't fetch error in GSC.
15+ days passed when submit my site httpa://en.capcuttemplates.xyz sitemap in GSC.
Sitemap link working correctly and I can access all the post there.
But this error đ is not solving.
Is this because my site is on blogger?
Help me sir đ.
I am tried all the methods you mentioned here.
But still I am getting Couldn't fetch error in GSC.
15+ days passed when submit my site https://en.capcuttemplates.xyz sitemap in GSC.
Sitemap link working correctly and I can access all the post there.
But this error đ is not solving.
Is this because my site is on blogger?
Help me sir đ.
I have only one map that won't update from Couldn't Fetch. Not sure why when there is nothing different between that sitemap and all of my others.
I tried this - though now Google automatically includes the domain instead of a full free-form text entry.
Still says couldn't fetch
OK, I've had this issue for months since changing my website to a new website on New Google Sites. I have tried all the solutions you have listed as being successful but they have not worked for me. I enter my url in sitemap on GSC and it comes up with either unknown or sometimes sitemap but always "couldn't fetch" . Sometimes it comes up with 2445 discovered pages last read 12 Aug 2022 (but this is referring to my previous website which does not exist now). Any advice how I can submit sitemap successfully? Thanks.
i m facing issue in google search console there in in sitemaps here is showing submitted sitemaps Status is Couldn't Fetch can you help me to resolve this issue
I tried all, still didn't work, couldn't fetch error is all I get.