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I will firstly ask a question and below the question you will see an explanation.

Can you tell me where is the actual issue in indexing, is my Sitemap correctly set up, and how do I solve this problem so my Root-page can be indexed properly and seen in Sitemap by Google?

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The SEO on my webpage is very good set up and maintained. Somehow I found out by manually indexing my root page, that my root page is not indexed from Sitemap (even if it of course exists in sitemap) but from other other intern and extern links, where none of them is real (canonical) root URL.

So, in URL inspection in Webmastertools for Sitemap is shown as N/A, and as a Referring Page (my root-page is https://www.example.ca):

1. https://www.example.ca/tag/some-folder-name/index21.html?PageSpeed=noscript
2. https://www.example.com/
3. http://www.example.ca/
4. http://s709358732.online.de/terms-of-use.html (old server replacement domain)

I also want to say something about my Sitemap. My Sitemap is on the link:

https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap.xml

And it looks like this:

<sitemapindex>
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_pages1.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2021-03-21T01:41:20+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_categories1.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2021-03-21T01:41:20+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_accounts1.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2021-03-21T01:41:20+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_news1.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2021-03-21T01:41:20+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_listings1.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2021-03-21T01:41:20+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>
https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_locations1.xml
</loc>
<lastmod>2021-03-21T01:41:20+00:00</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

My rootpage in the sitemap is in the

https://www.example.ca/sitemap/sitemap_pages1.xml

And here is a Screenshot from the Webmastertools to get full understanding what i am talking about:

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paranoic
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Sitemaps are only valid for pages that appear below them in the site hierarchy.:

A sitemap can be posted anywhere on your site, but a sitemap affects only descendants of the parent directory. Therefore, a sitemap posted at the site root can affect all files on the site, which is where we recommend posting your sitemaps.

By putting your sitemap in a /sitemap/ folder you are limiting it to only that folder and it's descendants.

They should ideally be in the root of your site.

Zhaph - Ben Duguid
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