I'm looking over a client's website and one of the things I found was their sitemap doesn't report being crawled since last September. I resubmitted the exact map that was crawled (happens to be plural = /sitemaps.xml), and I get the "couldn't fetch" response. It's the same url crawled in September, so the lack of a more recent update may be a sign the issue isn't just a new one today.
I can see the sitemap following the url, and I can visit each page that is accurately listed in the sitemap. Which I assume indicates the pages are not set to NOINDEX, for starters.
The customer is using SEOPress, which has basic on/off functionality for the sitemap. And it exists, and is accurately listing 32 pages. It is currently configured to show a post and page sub-map. I tried submitted just the page map ( /page-sitemap1.xml ) and get the same result.
I've never gotten this message before. Any insight as to why I get that message trying both submissions is appreciate. It has been a few hours, and I refreshed the Console screen with no change in Status. I submitted the top level sitemap again and get the same error. So not some transient bug, at least over a few hours.
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