How A Simple Sitemap Setting Was Hiding My Content From Google And How I Fixed It
Published on August 29, 2026
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Ever feel like your hard work is sitting in a ghost town while waiting for search traffic? I just discovered a sneaky blind spot on my own site that might be quietly happening to yours, too.
Yesterday during a live class with Jay, I realized my main sitemap had been showing a completely blank page to Google and human visitors for quite some time. The culprit? An accidental setting tweak in The SEO Framework plugin that set the chunk size way too high for my server to process, causing a silent crash instead of displaying my URLs.
If you haven't checked your XML sitemap in a while, open it up right now in an incognito window and make sure it actually loads a clean list of your pages. Fixing a broken or blank sitemap is one of the easiest backend wins you can tackle today to make sure your content actually gets the visibility it deserves.
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John
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