Picture this: You’re exploring RankMath free features and checking Google Search Console, feeling pretty good about your RankMath setup, when suddenly you see it. Red text. “Couldn’t fetch sitemap.” Your heart sinks a little. Did something break? Is Google ignoring your carefully crafted content?
This exact scenario hit me while working on this RankMath series. After successfully bumping my SEO scores from 71 to 77 across the first three posts, I discovered what looked like a major problem: Google couldn’t fetch my sitemap, even though RankMath was proudly showing it had generated one.
Here’s what I learned – and why this “problem” actually became the perfect showcase for RankMath’s free features.
