Technical SEO troubleshooting
XML Sitemap Guides
Problem-focused guides for the issues the checker can actually observe: fetch failures, redirects, broken URLs, noindex directives, and conflicting canonical signals.
Google Search Console: Couldn't Fetch Sitemap
Diagnose the exact sitemap URL, HTTP response, robots rules, XML, hosting controls, and Google-specific URL Inspection results.
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Redirect URLs in a Sitemap
Find 301/302/307/308 URLs and replace legacy entries with the final preferred destination.
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Noindex URLs in a Sitemap
Understand why sitemap inclusion conflicts with meta robots or X-Robots-Tag noindex directives.
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Sitemap Canonical Mismatch
Review sitemap URLs whose rel=canonical points elsewhere without pretending canonical hints are absolute rules.
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404 URLs in a Sitemap
Remove stale broken entries, distinguish deleted pages from moved pages, and fix the sitemap generator at its source.
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Start with a reproducible check
If you already have a sitemap URL, run it through the checker before changing Search Console settings or regenerating files. Separating HTTP, XML, and page-level signals makes troubleshooting much faster.