Title: Outdated sitemap Last modified: February 7, 2023 --- # Outdated sitemap * Resolved [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/) * For some unknown reason, the Yoast plugin has decided not to include new articles in the sitemap anymore, so they are no longer indexed by Google. I checked everything but I don’t see any errors. I haven’t changed anything and the articles are always written in the usual way. I’m posting a link to an unindexed January 7 article. Does anyone have any idea what could have happened? Thanks * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Foutdated-sitemap%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/) * (@maybellyne) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16447685) * Hello [@stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * Thanks for reaching out about your unindexed post. However, the issue isnt about an outdated sitemap; the post is in the post sitemap. * In your robots.txt file, I found: * `User-agent: * Disallow:/ * This blocks all search engines that “listen” to robots.txt from crawling your site. Instead, you should have this at least: * `User-Agent: * Disallow:Sitemap: https://www.altriprodotti.com/sitemap_index. xml * Please follow the steps at [https://yoast.com/help/how-to-edit-robots-txt-through-yoast-seo/](https://yoast.com/help/how-to-edit-robots-txt-through-yoast-seo/) to edit the file. * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448123) * Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I immediately edited the robots.txt file as you indicated. The problem however is that the new articles are totally absent from the sitemap. They just aren’t there. Do you have any ideas to correct this? Thank you Stefano * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448168) * It’s incredible. I tried to edit this article: * [https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-models-and-specifiche-tecniche/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-models-and-specifiche-tecniche/) * And Yoast only puts a change to this link (which is a tag) into the sitemap: * [https://www.altriprodotti.com/tag/4k-uhd/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/tag/4k-uhd/) * I don’t think the problem is in the robots.txt file * Anyone have ideas? Won’t that be a problem with yoast messing around? * Thank you * Stefano * Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/) * (@maybellyne) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448246) * Thanks for following up, Stefano. * I visited [https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-models-and-specifiche-tecniche/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-models-and-specifiche-tecniche/), and it returned a 404 error. Have you deleted the post, or there’s an error in the URL? * On the other hand, [https://www.altriprodotti.com/tag/4k-uhd/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/tag/4k-uhd/) appears in the [post tag sitemap](https://www.altriprodotti.com/post_tag-sitemap.xml). * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448269) * Hi Maybellyne, * The correct url is this. And it works normally. * [https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-modelli-e-specifiche-tecniche/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-modelli-e-specifiche-tecniche/) - This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/). * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448291) * The wrong url is due to the translator, who also translated the url into English * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448434) * I tried activating and deactivating the sitemap and now the urls are there. But the articles are not indexed in Google. * Missing URLs are these: * [https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-modelli-e-specifiche-tecniche/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/videocamere-sony-4k-modelli-e-specifiche-tecniche/) * [https://www.altriprodotti.com/technics-sa-c600-ampli-digital-streamer-cd/](https://www.altriprodotti.com/technics-sa-c600-ampli-digital-streamer-cd/) * Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/) * (@maybellyne) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16448484) * Thanks for sharing the correct URL; that’s also in the post-sitemap. [See screenshot](https://pasteboard.co/ODXgAppMMSxi.png). * If your posts are not being indexed, but they’re in the sitemap, [add your site to Google Search Console](https://yoast.com/add-website-to-google-search-console/) and [request indexing](https://yoast.com/help/fetch-as-googlebot/). If there are errors/reasons why they’re not in Google’s index, you’ll get a notification. * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16449794) * The site has already been in google search console for years, verified with code. All articles are indexed, except these two. I tried to make the indexing request manually, but no result. URLs are in the sitemap, the search console test says that indexing is possible, but google does not index them. SEO test is ok. I don’t know what else I can do. Any other suggestion? * Thanks * Stefano * Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/) * (@maybellyne) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16451274) * Thanks for the update, [@stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * Can you share screenshots of the notifications/results from Google Search Console when you requested indexing for both URLs? You can use any image-sharing service like [https://pasteboard.co/](https://pasteboard.co/), [https://snag.gy/](https://snag.gy/), [https://imgur.com/](https://imgur.com/), [https://snipboard.io/](https://snipboard.io/), or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it to an image- sharing service, please share the link to the image here. * Thread Starter [stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * (@stefano512) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16456404) * Hi Maybellyne, this is the situation in google search console. I send you screenshots. No errors but url not indexed. In other search engines, yahoo, bing, the situation is normal, url can be seen without problems. Do you have any idea? * [https://pasteboard.co/Lb5wf0q64vHv.jpg](https://pasteboard.co/Lb5wf0q64vHv.jpg) * [https://pasteboard.co/QQRFahpZgv4A.jpg](https://pasteboard.co/QQRFahpZgv4A.jpg) * [https://pasteboard.co/qXBtBtntBhhR.jpg](https://pasteboard.co/qXBtBtntBhhR.jpg) * [https://pasteboard.co/oKutD3IKkNMD.jpg](https://pasteboard.co/oKutD3IKkNMD.jpg) * Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/) * (@maybellyne) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16466377) * Hello [@stefano512](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefano512/) * Unfortunately, I don’t know why Google isn’t indexing the two posts since it’s indicated they were discovered in the sitemap. Were the Google Search Console screenshots taken recently? * You may consider posting in the [Google Search Central Community](https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/new) * [Jeroen Rotty](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeroenrotty/) * (@jeroenrotty) * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outdated-sitemap/#post-16477674) * This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read [this post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-this-before-your-post/) before [opening a new request](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-seo#new-post). 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