# Search Console sitemap html warning

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-console-sitemap-html-warning/262331>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [April 19, 2023, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-console-sitemap-html-warning/262331 "2023-04-19T20:40:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jagster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jagster/32/192154_2.png) [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2023, 6:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-console-sitemap-html-warning/262331/4 "2023-04-20T06:03:45Z")

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Sitemap is for open sites. Because you don’t let bots of search engines in, you don’t do anything with sitemap either and there is absolut no need to use search console either. With members-only you told to Google you don’t want them to index content.

But yes. Googlebot is waiting for sitemap but gets html-page instead, and you see an error. As you should.

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