Garfield™
Member
When I look at the google panel, I see a failed to fetch warning, how can I solve this?
whereas I have access to my sitemap file;
whereas I have access to my sitemap file;
XF 2.2 sitemap issue?
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smallwheels
New member
Suffering from the same issue. My forum is just about a bit more than 2 months old and over time I've tried countless times to bring Google to recognize the sitemap w/o any success. The sitemap is there and it is accessible as well. Bing reads it w/o issues and constantly fetches the actual version. Only google refuses it which leads to only very few URLs (that I manually fed into the search console) indexed by Google (currently 6 URLs indexed by Google vs. ~180 URLs indexed by Bing).
Any help would be appreciated!
Any help would be appreciated!
nodle
Well-known member
This is identical to a T of what is happening with mine as well. I have tried everything; from reading everything online and trying fixes, to deleting/re-creating the site map, running SEO checks, etc. I don't even know what else to try so I basically have given up.
Tracy Perry
Well-known member
Well, wouldn't that be expected if your backup was older than the sitemap that Google had used and the data was older?
Tracy Perry
Well-known member
I don't really think they looked at it like that.. more likely, they looked at it as if this is factual, we will slowly phase in the search as we might overload their system.
smallwheels
New member
My forum ist new and was never restored from a backup and my URL count is atm low, in the 3-digit-area.
benFF
Well-known member
I don't think so.
My vbulletin sitemap (the old one) has nearly twice as many urls as my xenforo one and that reads in fine.
smallwheels
New member
Has anybody found a solution for this? I am still suffering from the issue.
My forum is still small and nothing has changed in regards of Google ignoring the sitemap according do Google Search Console:
Bing reads the sitemap regularly w/o issues and states currently it has discovered 446 URLs and indexed 403 pages.
Google on the other hand refuses to read the sitemap, still claims "could not fetch" in Search Console. No matter how often I push the sitemap and no matter if it is sitemap.xml, sitemap.php or whatever else may be possible.
Google has in opposite to Bing just 42 URLs indexed and 36 not indexed. Almost all of those URLs have been submitted manually by me, one after the other, over the last months.
Xenforo is running the actual version (2.2.12). Auto-sitemap-generation and -submitting are set to "on", all SEO-features that Xenforo offers in the options are checked.
Opening the sitemap in a Browser shows no issues, using a sitemap validator shows no issues as well.
Still Google ignores my forum and my sitemap and is no help at all.
The topic has been risen in the forum on several occacions, a bug that was opened has been closed as "no bug", several people seem to suffer from the same issue with absolutely no solution in sight and - after trying everything - not even an idea for a possible solution.
My forum is still small and nothing has changed in regards of Google ignoring the sitemap according do Google Search Console:
- Forum is 6 month old
- currently 300 Members, 350 threads, 5600 Postings
- the content is very little "noise" and mostly high quality / relevant (it is a technical forum)
Bing reads the sitemap regularly w/o issues and states currently it has discovered 446 URLs and indexed 403 pages.
Google on the other hand refuses to read the sitemap, still claims "could not fetch" in Search Console. No matter how often I push the sitemap and no matter if it is sitemap.xml, sitemap.php or whatever else may be possible.
Google has in opposite to Bing just 42 URLs indexed and 36 not indexed. Almost all of those URLs have been submitted manually by me, one after the other, over the last months.
Xenforo is running the actual version (2.2.12). Auto-sitemap-generation and -submitting are set to "on", all SEO-features that Xenforo offers in the options are checked.
Opening the sitemap in a Browser shows no issues, using a sitemap validator shows no issues as well.
Still Google ignores my forum and my sitemap and is no help at all.
The topic has been risen in the forum on several occacions, a bug that was opened has been closed as "no bug", several people seem to suffer from the same issue with absolutely no solution in sight and - after trying everything - not even an idea for a possible solution.
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