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This is a stressful situation, but the fact that the tests are passing is a good sign. It’s usually fixable.
The contradictory error (“couldn’t fetch” vs. “200 OK”) points to one of two very common issues.
1. Something is Blocking Google’s Main Crawler. This is the most likely cause. A security plugin, a server firewall, or a CDN is likely blocking Google’s automated crawler but allowing the manual test through. They come from different IP addresses.
• What to do: Check your security plugin and firewall logs to see if Googlebot is being blocked. Try temporarily disabling the security plugin, then ask Google to fetch the sitemap again in Search Console. If it works, you’ve found the culprit and need to whitelist Googlebot.2. An Accidental “noindex” Tag. A recent update to a plugin or theme might have accidentally added a noindex tag to all your products. This tells Google to remove them from search results entirely.
• What to do: Go to one of your product pages on your website. Right-click and choose “View Page Source.” Use the search function (Ctrl+F or Cmd+F) and look for the word noindex. If you see a line like <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex”>, that’s your problem. You’ll need to find the setting in your SEO plugin (RankMath) or theme options that is causing this.
Start with these two checks. They account for this exact problem the vast majority of the
