Hi there,
We appreciate you reaching out to Rank Math support.
We understand your concern about the sitemap being set as ‘noindex’, but we assure you that this is how it should be. The reason is that we don’t want Google to index the sitemap itself, we only want them to index the pages and posts that are listed on the sitemap. The sitemap is just a way to tell Google what pages and posts you have on your website, not a page that you want to show up in search results. This is true for any sitemap, even ours.
The important thing is that your pages and posts are set to ‘index’, which means that they are eligible to appear in Google search results. You can check this by looking at the Rank Math settings on each page or post, or by using the Google URL Inspection tool.
To make sure that Google knows about your sitemap and can crawl your pages and posts, you need to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console. This is a simple process that you can follow by using our tutorial: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
We hope this clarifies your doubts. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. We’re always happy to help.
Hello,
Thanks for explaining to me!
That clears the air.
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
