Sitemap index files are rejected or skipped
Sitemap index files are rejected or not followed, so the warmer never queues the pages listed inside them.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 4 April 2016 · last reported 3 November 2023
What's going wrong
Owners who give the warmer a sitemap index, often generated by SEO plugins, see an error saying the file lacks a valid XML opening tag, or they find the crawler fetches the index but skips the child sitemaps.
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