Hello,
We apologize for the inconvenience you’re experiencing with adding your XML sitemap to Google Search Console. It’s important to ensure that Google can discover your URLs and index your site properly.
When the discovered pages are showing as 0 in the Google Search Console, it means that Google hasn’t used the sitemap to find the URLs. This could be due to various reasons, such as Google using other methods to discover your URLs, like instant indexing APIs, backlinks, or multiple sitemaps.
To troubleshoot this issue, we recommend following these steps:
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Ensure that you have added the correct version of your sitemap to Google Search Console. You should verify that you have added the correct URL variation to Google Search Console by navigating to Settings → General from your WordPress dashboard.
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If the error persists, you can try flushing the sitemap cache and excluding the sitemap from caching in Rank Math SEO settings. You can do this by navigating to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings and then increasing the value of the Links Per Sitemap by one. After that, navigate to Settings → Permalinks and click Save Changes to ensure the current settings are applied.
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If the issue still persists, you may need to resubmit your sitemap in Google Search Console after fixing any issues with the sitemap. You can remove your sitemap from Google Search Console and then submit it again as described in this tutorial: Submit sitemap to Google Search Console.
If after following these steps you’re still facing the issue, please feel free to reach out to our support team directly from here, and we’re always here to help.
We appreciate your understanding and patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Sources:
Why Google Search Console Shows Zero Discovered URLs Through Sitemap? » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
How to Fix Submitted URL Marked ‘NoIndex’ Error » Rank Math
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for the unexpected delays and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
We checked your sitemap and it is loading perfectly fine.
The fact that GSC reported “Success” in the status report indicates that there’s no issue with Google reading your sitemap. You may refer to this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/zero-discovered-urls-through-sitemap/
You may need to give it some time for Google to discover the URLs inside your sitemap.
Please note that your sitemaps are just a backup crawling mechanism and if Google doesn’t use your sitemap, Google will discover your URLs via internal links.
Looking forward to helping you.
I waited two months and it’s had 0 discovered pages
Hello,
We checked your Robots.txt to ensure that your robots.txt file is not blocking Googlebot from crawling your site. We can confirm it is not doing so.
We suggest you check your Google Search Console, coverage section to determine any issues reported on your site:
https://support.artlogic.net/hc/en-gb/articles/360016851260-Google-Search-Console-errors-and-coverage-issues
If there are any issues, then please share those with us here, and we’ll be assisting you with our best effort. You can also use a tool like Imgur to share screenshots of those errors with us.
We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thank you.
We don’t have any errors because with yeast seo that sitemap works perfectly. This error is with rankmath only
Hello,
We’ve checked your site, and it seems that you’re using Rank Math PRO but the account you have used to open this ticket is the Rank Math free version.
Can you please search and forward a receipt from FastSpring.com or the email address you used to purchase so we can locate your account and verify it?
Meanwhile, your post sitemap is returning a critical error.
You must have received an email from WordPress with the details about the error. Please share it with us here so we can check.
If you haven’t received the email with the error code, you can follow this guide to enable debugging in WordPress
https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/ or you can get in touch with your web host, and they will help you locate the log file.
Having an error log will help us determine what is causing the critical error on your website.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
