help updating the sitemap

Hi @lucilafreire ,

We understand you’ve uploaded your own sitemap on your server and you want to update it using Yoast SEO. Unfortunately, you cannot update an external sitemap directly from the Yoast SEO plugin. If you want to add your external sitemap to the sitemap index this article can help: https://yoast.com/help/add-external-sitemap-to-index/.

We can see that your Yoast SEO XML sitemap is enabled. Are you using that sitemap as well?

The XML sitemap is enabled, but I did not insert a sitemap indexing rule in robots.txt. Before I inserted the sitemap on my server, it was already activated. Can this generate any conflict? In the google console, there were some errors and some indexed pages not sent to the sitemap.

@lucilafreire

Using the sitemap directive in the robots.txt file can tell search engines where to find your XML sitemap. You can, of course, also submit your XML sitemaps to each search engine using their respective webmaster tools solutions. And we strongly recommend you do, because search engine webmaster tools programs will give you lots of valuable information about your site. If you don’t want to do that, adding a sitemap line to your robots.txt is a good quick alternative.

Thanks

Is it possible to disable the sitemap I inserted on the server and leave only the yoast one enabled? My fear of doing any operation is the google search console removing the indexes it did.

@lucilafreire,

We are not sure how you were able to insert the sitemap on the server or how to remove it from there. However, you may consider reaching out to your web hosting provider for help with this since it has to do with the server.

We also highly recommend that you submit your Yoast-generated XML sitemap index by following this guide – https://kb.yoast.com/kb/submit-sitemap-search-engines/

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