Google Search Console - Sitemap details setup for my website

[Paragon]

Hi,

I was setting Google Merchant centre and as part of the setup, had to add the Sitemap details on Google Search Console. There I had to add each sitemaps e.g https://abcdefg.com/category1. When I add the category1, i get the error Sitemap is HTML. Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead. How to solve this ?

 

[jubran]

You simply need to provide a valid sitemap as you were exactly told. Therefore, you either code your custom sitemap with XML or simply install Yoast SEO and then go to advanced settings to enable sitemap and you'll be able to find it at https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

So in google, you just put: sitemap.xml in the field.