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Fixes for WordPress SEO Sitemap Issues

WordPress SEO is a great all in one solution for managing your site. It takes care of SEO, Sitemaps, Robots.txt, and Htaccess eliminating the need for 3 separate plugins.

There happens to be a few bugs that prevent sitemaps from working properly. Google Webmaster Tools may be giving you the following error.

Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.

If Only Some of Your Sitemaps Result in a Not Found or 404 Error…

For example: http://yourdomain.com/page-sitemap.xml results in a not found error.

Fix:
Edit a page/post in admin.
In the WordPress SEO Panel, click “Advanced.”
Change “Include in Sitemap: Auto detect” to “Always Include”

We don’t recommend this for sites with a lot of pages. Hopefully Yoast figures out a solution soon.

If Your Sitemap Doesn’t Show up at All…

Try resetting your permalinks.
Go to Settings > Permalinks.
Just click “Save Changes”
Give it a try.