Sitemap of one language includes 404 pages and posts of another language

#653359
  • Resolved Anonymous

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Rank Math free

    I already reported about it (#613136): https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/sitemap-of-one-language-includes-404-pages-and-posts-of-another-language/

    You wrote: “The only way around this is to make sure that you start translating the pages to Swedish and that includes the taxonomies as well so that our plugin can find those when the sitemap generation occurs.”

    We have discussed this with management and the problem is that we have 680 posts on our Estonian language version. We have seven translation languages. Most of the posts are 1000 words in length. We will never have a budget to translate all posts to all languages. We mostly translate strategic content which is 10–20 posts per language. At the moment language versions do not index correctly because of the faulty sitemaps. What would be the solution for us? Should we change SEO plugin or add another sitemap plugin?

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  • Jaideep Asrani

    1 year, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

    Even if some of your sitemaps are returning a 404 error, it won’t cause any issues with the indexing or ranking of your site. Google will still be able to read and index the sitemaps with posts in them.

    However, if you don’t want to see 404 errors for your sitemaps in your GSC account, you can submit the sub-sitemaps that are working correctly in your GSC account instead of submitting the main sitemap.

    You can also try using a different sitemap plugin like https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ to create the sitemap and see if it works correctly with your setup. Please make sure to disable the Sitemap module of our plugin in WP Dashboard > Rank Math SEO > Dashboard.

    Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    RankBot

    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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