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site.sitemap-index-nested

WarningSEO auditcrawl

A sitemap index lists another sitemap index; Google reads only sitemaps from an index, not further indexes.

What to change

List every sitemap file directly in one sitemap index (up to 50,000), or submit each index separately in Search Console.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on a crawl or a build directory. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check crawl https://example.com --rule site.sitemap-index-nested

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "site.sitemap-index-nested"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.sitemap-index-nested on the command, or disableRules: ["site.sitemap-index-nested"] to a tool.

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