Google Webmaster Can't read sitemap

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The discussion revolves around issues with Google Webmaster Tools unable to read sitemaps on a Discourse forum. Cryptotalk reports XML tag errors and inaccessible sitemaps, providing links to their sitemap files. dpacheco confirms the sitemaps are accessible and valid, suggesting the use of the Discourse Sitemap Plugin, which has since been merged into core as of version 2.9.0.beta4 JammyDodger clarifies this. oneaniket and hellejoeps also report similar issues, with oneaniket noting that an XML validator finds no problems despite Google’s errors. Anuj_Aggarwal adds that sitemap.xml fails while sitemap_1.xml succeeds and sitemap_recent.xml has missing XML tags. The issue appears to be related to Google’s ability to fetch and parse the sitemaps, despite their validity.

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Hello everyone!
I just switched to Discourse but
I have a problem about Sitemap as follows:

How do I fix it?
Here is my sitemap: https://cryptotalk.info/sitemap.xml and https://cryptotalk.info/sitemap_recent.xml

Thank you very much.

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I’ve checked both sitemaps and they’re accessible and valid. For automatic validation, I used an XML Sitemap Validator.

Small websites with fewer than 100 URLs, don’t need a sitemap. Here’s an explanation.

Discourse Sitemap Plugin
In case you haven’t used the Discourse Sitemap Plugin, it adds a sitemap.xml to your Discourse instance.

Submitting your sitemap to Google
As a quick reference, here are the Google guidelines to build and submit a sitemap

3

The Discourse Sitemap plugin has now been merged into core, so there should be no need to use the plugin itself. :+1:

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Hi,
I am missing xml tag error for our sitemap. Here is the screenshot

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I ran the url against xml validator and it doesn’t detect any issues there. I am on discourse version 3.0.3.

@dpacheco could you please help me with this? Thanks

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I have the same issue, that the sitemaps apart from the sitemap_recent.xml fails if Google wants to fetch the sitemap file.

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I am having the same issue.

  • Sitemap.xml → Sitemap could not be read
  • sitemap_1.xml → SUCCESS
  • sitemap_recent.xml → Missing XML tag

What should be done to fix these errors?

Thanks