(Entry was posted by Philip Rinaldi on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, Thursday, April 11, 2019).

Google is not reading the Sitemap

Domain Migration Question: Has anyone recently migrated domain names? I have a website that we recently migrated and for some reason, Google is not reading the Sitemap. All tests have passed and Google Successfully reads the sitemap, but 0 URLs are discovered. Is this because of using the `Change of Address` tool in GSC?

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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions G+ community.

Diego Savino: wild card 301 all the pages on your previous domain. Provider the URLs are the same.
Scott Clark: Migrations are difficult and need to be done using a sequence checklist. It`s very hard to answer your question generically.

Also COA can take a LONG time to process, and it can be tripped up by even small things, like having SOME of the old pages still in the index or subdomains not yet migrated.
Brenda Michelin: Have you reviewed your ROBOTS? Did you have indexing turned off while you were in maintenance mode? What is your URL?
Brenda Michelin: You can also jump-start by using the "Fetch As Google" Tool in Search console to get Google back on your site.
Brenda Michelin: You can also use Ping O Matic to ping the search engines to come and crawl your new site.
Becky Westmoreland: what Brenda said.
Michael Stricker: Did you submit a Change of Address in GSC?
Michael Martinez: Be aware that Google has had problems indexing content over the past week.