Sitemap indexing in Search Console

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So far I’ve only managed to get 4 pages indexed out of hundreds. When I add the sitemap.xml then Google Search Console immeditaley shows it as “Couldn’t Fetch” yet if I click to open it directly then I see the whole XML file with no issues. I’ve also added multiple pages one by one to be indexed but only 4 have been indexed.

Any experience whether this is a Softr issue and how to resolve it?

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Hi @podinfo welcome to the community. A couple of questions for you:

  1. Are your pages accessible for loggedin users only, or public users?

  2. Are the pages you’re trying to index dynamic pages? meaning you have a profile page with 100x users, and are expecting 100x profile pages?

Also, feel free to direct message me the sitemap URL you are using. Could be a problem with your formatting.

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  • The whole site is public access, no logins
  • I have sevaral list pages and then many details pages created from AirTable data
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And to confirm, you’d like to see each of those “detail pages” show up on your sitemap?

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Yes I would like them all indexed and they are all there in the XML file provided by Softr already. Just can’t get Google Search Console to read the file!

How do I send a DM?

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Click on my profile picture and click message. When doing so, please send me your site URL so I can look into it.

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Still no message option visible!

The site is print-on-demand.info

Google has now indexed the pages following my manual page submissions but the sitemap is still showing as “Couldn’t fetch”

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Hey JJ. Was there a solution to this?

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I don’t believe this was an actual bug, nor have we had other users experience this problem. So I believe it is.

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try generating the sitemap again. yourwebpageurl/generate-sitemap

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hi, I have the exact same problem as OP and this is a big problem as it limits the value of apps we create. I have directories at ismsdirectory.com, bettersecurity,ai, legalpros.ai if records can’t be indexed the websites don’t do their job… so creating a directory on softr is super limited. Any fix planned?

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Hi folks,

No bug here, and you can do this with Softr. There are just certain steps you need to take, which I’ve listed below:

First, sitemaps cannot be used for subdomains. It has to be on a primary domain.

Then, open your app (www.google.com) and add /generate-sitemap at the end of it. You should then see a message that your site map is generating. This takes around 5 minutes.

Then go into google search console and and copy your app URL with /sitemap.xml appended at the end of it.

Then, you should see your sitemap generated and active in search console. Hope this helps!

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Hi, thanks JJ, however the answer misses a bit the point raised. The issue is that “generate sitemap” only generate sitemap for some pages but not record pages (i.e. The ISO Guys 27001, 27701 , 42001 | ISMS Directory) while the value of the sitemap for a directory is listing the hundreds of records… while currently sitemap generated has like a couple of URLs for pages that are “static”. Hope a solution will be found for this, thanks for your attention.