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In Search Console, why is the XML sitemap "issue" count 5x higher than the URL submission count?

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FPD_NYC last edited by

Google Search Console is telling us that there are 5,193 sitemap "issues" - URLs that are present on the XML sitemap that are blocked by robots.txt

However, there are only 1,222 total URLs submitted on the XML sitemap. I only found 83 instances of URLs that fit their example description.

Why is the number of "issues" so high?

Does it compound over time as Google re-crawls the sitemap?
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Extima-Christian last edited by

Hello, I just went through an issue like this. Are you using WordPress? Also, Do you have any SEO plug-ins installed?
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