Sitemap cannot be fetched (status 403)

sitemap.unreachable

What it means

A sitemap was found, but it answered with status 403 or did not answer, so crawlers may not be able to use it either. Check that your firewall lets crawlers fetch it.

Priority

P2

How to fix it

Run a free check of your page. The report shows the evidence for this finding on your site and a ready-to-paste fix: a robots.txt change, a Cloudflare rule, JSON-LD markup, an llms.txt draft or a short instruction.

How to confirm the fix

After the change, press "Check again" on the report: it lists what was fixed and how the score changed.

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