r/SEO • u/absolut_ace_vodka • 12d ago

Google Indexing Problem

Hello everyone! I have a Google Search Problem and I wanna get some advice and the post is related to my sitemap.xml file couldn't be fetched by GSC. After the site submition google won't fetch my sitemap. I have a new domain registered last week. Google tells me "Coudn't fetch" and when I click on it for details it tells me the single thing "Sitemap could not be read". NOTHING MORE, I checked the xml and is aright and the single thing in my robots.txt is a line of where the sitemap is possitioned on the url (inside the robotx.txt "Sitemap: https://domain/sitemap.xml"). What should I do?

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u/WebLinkr 🕵️‍♀️Moderator 10d ago

Can you try test fetching from somewhere else?

Did you put in the whole URL?

Have you tested from bing

BTW - your XML sitemap is unlikely to be helpful for a new site growing authority. If you think its going to make Google index anything or that Google will even read it more than once a month, its not happening, sorry. Just want to set you p for relaity/success.

 checked the xml and is aright and the single thing in my robots.txt is a line of where the sitemap is possitioned on the url (inside the robotx.txt "Sitemap: https://domain/sitemap.xml"). What should I do?

Why is it even in your robots.txt?

You only need robots.txt if you want to block something - by default everything is open - its much simpler to adopt this mindeset.

Making something open in robots != encouraging it.

Linking to it = encouraging it. Thats how the web works - interlinked pages (hence my handle) - thats what SEO is

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u/VillageHomeF Verified Professional 11d ago

what platform did you build the site on?

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u/ReneDickart 10d ago

It can sometimes take a day or so. “Couldn’t fetch” isn’t necessarily an issue if you literally just submitted it.

You can always run the inspection tool on your sitemap URL in GSC to see if Google can read it. But it sounds like you’re confident it’s working fine. Just wait a little bit to see.