Lots of Issues with Yoast and Search Console

  • Resolved avcobb123

    (@avcobb123)


    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hi, I’m using Yoast SEO for my site and I’ve had continual issues with Google Search Console indexing my pages.

    Currently I’m showing 20 pages under Coverage as Valid, yet there are a ton that are not actually getting indexed.

    I tried to resubmit my sitemap about 10 days ago, and when I did it said it was successful, but now when I look at my sitemaps, it says Sitemap could not be read.

    Can someone assist?

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  • Plugin Support Michael Ti?a

    (@mikes41720)

    Hi @avcobb123

    Regarding the index coverage in Google Search Console, you shouldn’t expect 100% coverage. There are also lots of valid reasons as to why certain pages on your site aren’t being considered valid (such as if they have been excluded, or there is a warning or error). You can learn more about it here – https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

    We understand you are receiving a ‘sitemap could not be read’ message from GSC. Would it be possible for you to provide more details and a screenshot of the exact message and if there is any other information or details, if this is occurring for a specific sub-sitemap?

    We ask as we checked your main /sitemap_index.xml and we did see everything was loading as expected, including all of the sub-sitemaps. However, there was one sub-sitemap (/tcb_lightbox-sitemap.xml) that had 0 URLs, so if there isn’t any valid content for that, you might want to noindex that particular post type or taxonomy so that it is removed from the sitemap – https://yoast.com/help/how-to-customize-the-sitemap-index/

    Then we would recommend removing and resubmitting your /sitemap_index.xml and then monitoring it for changes accordingly – https://yoast.com/help/submit-sitemap-search-engines/#google-remove

    Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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