Sitemap.gz is being indexed and is showing up in SERP instead of actual pages.

[pdowling]

Sitemap.gz is being indexed and is showing up in SERP instead of actual pages. I recently uploaded my sitemap file - https://psglearning.com/sitemapcustom/sitemap-index.xml -  via Search Console.  The only record within the XML file is sitemaps.gz.  When I searched for some content on my site - here is the search https://goo.gl/mqxBeq -  I was shown the following search result, indicating that our GZ file is getting indexed instead of our pages.

http://www.psglearning.com/catalog 1 http://www.psglearning.com ...www.psglearning.com/sitemapcustom/sitemap.gz... 1 https://www.psglearning.com/catalog/productdetails/9781284059656/ 1 https://www.psglearning.com/catalog/productdetails/9781284060454/ 1 ...

My sitemap is listed at https://psglearning.com/sitemapcustom/sitemap-index.xml inside the sitemap the only reference is to sitemap.gz.  Should we remove the link the the sitemap.gz within the xml file and just serve the actual page paths?    <sitemapindex< span=""> xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"></sitemapindex<><sitemap></sitemap>https://www.psglearning.com/sitemapcustom/sitemap.gz<lastmod></lastmod>2017-06-12T09:41-04:00

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Well, what's the problem for it being indexed? Are the links in your .gz sitemap being submitted and indexed?

[pdowling]

The problem is that the page I was hoping to get indexed is https://www.psglearning.com/catalog/productdetails/9781284060454 but the page that is in the SERP is www.psglearning.com/sitemapcustom/sitemap.gz .