Using SEMRush we found out that we have an SEO issue like: “4 incorrect pages found in sitemap.xml” so SEMRush is reporting 4 incorrect pages found on our sitemap. The reported issue type is a redirect. As far as I could understand the sitemap is created automatically by enabling the auto-generated sitemap, right? I checked this in my project settings and it’s already enabled. I am sending you screenshots from SEMRush report issue and my project settings → SEO.
So, this issue isn’t about the sitemap but the pages within the sitemap.
On your given SEMrush report column name “Link URLs” click on each of these URLs over there. Are they redirecting to the correct pages? If not, redirect them to the correct pages in Webflow’s redirect page. That should fix this error.
This error is triggered if your sitemap.xml contains URLs that:
lead to webpages with the same content
redirect to a different webpage
return non-200 status code
Populating your file with such URLs will confuse search engines, cause unnecessary crawling or may even result in your sitemap being rejected.So in order to fix it Review your sitemap.xml for any redirected, non-canonical or non-200 URLs. Provide the final destination URLs that are canonical and return a 200 status code.
I am totally lost with this, so please help me if you have any idea.
So, the old pages that are redirected to new ones, are their statuses still active? Meaning they are not archived or drafted.
That is causing them to appear in the sitemap.xml automatically because your sitemap is auto-generated.
If you archive or draft these pages this should solve it.
THANK YOU @yigit you are AWESOME! i found the blog post into two CMS Collections with different url, both with published status. I was confused because in project setting we have redirect url, but this solve the problem.
