March 21, 2022  SEONews

Yoast WordPress SEO Bug Creates Duplicate Sitemaps – Search Engine Journal

Yoast confirmed a bug that causes WordPress to generate duplicate sitemaps and is said to be working on a fix

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A sharp-eyed search marketer noticed that Yoast was generating duplicate sitemaps. It’s not known how long this has been happening, but the head of SEO at Yoast acknowledged the bug and noted that Yoast is aware of the problem and says it is working on a fix.

Once this duplicate sitemap bug was discovered however, checking on other SEO plugins revealed that a similar issue was happening to other plugins as well, but that it wasn’t endemic to all SEO plugins.

Discovery of the Yoast SEO Sitemap Bug

Brenda Malone (@_brendamalone) discovered the bug and tweeted to Yoast about it:

@yoast @jonoalderson Is there a way to turn off the duplicate xml sitemaps that Yoast is creating?
page .com/page-sitemap.xml…

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