sitemap is submiting /feed urls in google search console

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

It seems that you’re currently using the Rank Math PRO plugin, but the account you have used to open this ticket is the Rank Math free version.

Can you please search and forward a receipt from FastSpring.com so we can locate your account and verify it?

Back to the issue, feed URLs are usually generated by WordPress and Rank Math doesn’t add them to your sitemap. You can confirm that by checking your sitemap at /sitemap_index.xml. Sitemap is only one of many ways Google discovers the URLs of your site. However, you can add the following filter on the website to set the feed URLs to noindex:

add_action( 'template_redirect', 'noindex_feeds' );
function noindex_feeds() {
    if ( ! is_feed() ) {
        return;
    }
header( 'X-Robots-Tag: noindex', true );
}

Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

However, please note that when you set noindex to your feed URLs that means Google will not index them on SERPs, but Google will still be able to crawl those URLs. If you don’t want Google to crawl those URLs then you can add the following disallow rule to your robots.txt file.

Disallow: */feed/

Here’s a guide on how to edit your robots.txt using Rank Math:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

Once done, allow Google some time to re-crawl your site to reflect the changes.

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Regarding the issue of Google indexing your feed URLs, this is not something that Rank Math controls. Feed URLs are generated by WordPress and Rank Math does not add them to your sitemap. You can confirm that by checking your sitemap at /sitemap_index.xml.

However, Google can discover and crawl your feed URLs from other sources, such as links, social media, or other websites. This is normal and does not affect your SEO negatively. You can learn more about how Google crawls and indexes different types of pages and files here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing

If you don’t want Google to index or show your feed URLs in the search results, you can follow the steps that we shared in our previous reply. You can add a filter to set the feed URLs to noindex and a disallow rule to your robots.txt file to prevent Google from crawling them.

As for your question about the free shopping views in Google Shopping, we don’t think this will have any impact on them. Your feed URLs are not related to your product pages or your product feed that you submit to Google Merchant Center.

We hope this helps you understand the issue better and resolve it. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. We’re always here to help. Thank you.