XML sitemap not working automaticlly in my blog.

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  rusller · Member · Dec 5, 2015 at 11:23 am

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  Hello All WordPress Team,

  I wanted to add my XML sitemap (immoparis17.wordpress.com) to Search engine like google webmaster tools and Bing.

  But the XML sitemap did not work in my blog (immoparis17.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml and also for news sitemap xml : (immoparis17.wordpress.com/news-sitemap.xml).
  I searched for a solution i found this: https://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/

  but alwyas page not found.

  Can u heap me please ? :)

  Thank you
  Best Regards
  Ismail L

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Dec 5, 2015 at 2:06 pm

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  Hi there,

  Your blog is currently set to be hidden from search engines. You will need to set your site to fully public in order for a sitemap to be generated and for search engines to index your site.

  To make your site visible to search engines, please go to this link:
  https://wordpress.com/settings/general/immoparis17.wordpress.com

  Under Site Visibility Settings, select the option Allow search engines to index this site. Then save your settings.

  Once you do this we well automatically provide your sitemap to the major search engines, and also ping them each time you create a new post. Please note that it can take up to two months before your site will start appearing in search results, and in this time you might also see a robots.txt warning if you do search for your site. This is normal, and will go away once your site is indexed.

  You can also see this link for more information:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

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  rusller · Member · Dec 5, 2015 at 7:02 pm

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  Hello Kokkieh, Thank you very much… :)

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  kokkieh · Staff · Dec 5, 2015 at 7:24 pm

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  You’re very welcome :)

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  joaocosta · Member · Dec 16, 2015 at 11:50 pm

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  Uau, I can’t believe the default option is to leave sites unindexed … Would you know why this is the case ?

  Thanks for the tip, this helped me too !

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  kokkieh · Staff · Dec 17, 2015 at 7:36 am

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  @joaocosta
  I don’t know why, but if I can venture a guess it’s to give people time to get their sites looking the way they want before search engines start crawling and caching it.

  But I can’t find any specific information on this at the moment, so it’s just a guess.