Hey guys, I'm getting this weird error when I submit my sitemap to Google. It says I'm getting a 409 error in my post-sitemap.xml file (https://cleargear.com/post-sitemap.xml). But when I check it, it looks totally fine.

I am using YoastSEO to generate the sitemap.xml file.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is this a big deal? If so, Does anyone know how to fix?

Thanks

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Hey guys, I ended up disabling the sitemap option from YoastSEO, then installed the 'Google (XML) sitemap' plug-in. I re-submitted the sitemap to Google last night, and it came back with no issues. I'm glad to finally have this sorted out.

Thanks for all the help!

Thanks for the response. Do you think this is a robots.txt issue? Or could this be caused by the YoastSEO plugin?

Do you know if this plug-in works with YoastSEO together? Or will it cause issues?

Thank you for the response.

I just scanned the site using 'Screaming frog'. Under Internal>Directives there were zero 'no index' links. I also check for '404 errors', server 505 errors, or anything 'blocked by robots.txt'.

Google search console is still showing me that there are URL's being blocked by my sitemap. (I added a screenshot of this). When I click through, it tells me that the 'post sitemap' has over +300 warnings.

I have just deleted the YoastSEO plugin, and I am now re-installing it. hopefully, this fixes the issue.

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Google Search console is telling me "Sitemap contains URLs which are blocked by robots.txt."

I don't understand why my sitemap is being blocked? My robots.txt look like this:

User-Agent: *
Disallow:

Sitemap: http://www.website.com/sitemap_index.xml

It's a WordPress site, with Yoast SEO installed. Is anyone else having this issue with Google Search console? Does anyone know how I can fix this issue?