0 Images showing on Sitemap even though I have lots of images in the post feed

Hello,

I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your sitemap. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It’s important to ensure that your sitemap accurately reflects the content on your website.

The issue you’re facing could be related to the sitemap settings. To address this, please ensure that the “Include Images” option is enabled in the Rank Math plugin settings. This can be found in the Sitemaps section of Rank Math.

Here’s a screenshot of where you can find the “Include Images” option in the Sitemap settings:

If the “Include Images” option is already enabled and you’re still experiencing issues, there might be other factors at play. It’s important to ensure that your images are properly indexed and accessible to search engines.

If you’ve already checked the settings and are still facing issues, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to assist you further.

Best regards.

Sources:
How to Setup Rank Math SEO Plugin Properly
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math

Hello,

Based on your description and the screenshots, it appears that the images in your post feeds are not being recognized in the sitemap, likely because they are not part of the main content (the_content), but rather added via widgets or custom fields.

For your taxonomy archive pages to get crawled and indexed, it’s crucial to ensure they are accessible to search engines and that their content is SEO-friendly.

If Google Search Console indicates “Crawl Allowed? N/A”, it suggests that these pages might not be accessible to Google’s crawlers.

Here are a few steps to consider:

1 . Improve internal linking to these pages from other high-authority pages on your site to increase their crawlability.

2 . Ensure that the content on these pages is valuable and unique. Thin or duplicated content can negatively impact crawl rates and indexation.

3 . Use Google Search Console to check for any crawl errors that might be affecting these pages.

Regarding the issue with images not appearing in the sitemap, we might need to take a closer look at the settings for a more technical investigation, especially because custom fields are involved.

For us to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

We really look forward to helping you.

Hello,

We checked your sitemap.

Upon checking we can see that the sitemap is a category sitemap.

Please note that only the images included in the category description are added to the sitemap.

Since you are using custom fields to add images to the category pages the images will not be counted in the sitemap.

Also keep in mind for this that we don’t have the option to include these images from ACF fields for taxonomies/category pages.

We hope that helps, and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

Thank you.

Hello,

The theme developer could modify the theme’s template files to include images directly within the content of category pages.

This approach would make the images part of the actual content, which should then be recognized by Rank Math for inclusion in the sitemap.

If it’s feasible, consider setting these images as featured images for the posts.

Rank Math automatically includes featured images in the sitemap, so this would be a straightforward solution if it aligns with your design and content strategy.

Another option is to create a custom integration with Rank Math. This would involve writing a custom function or plugin that hooks into Rank Math’s sitemap generation process.

The function would programmatically add URLs of images from ACF fields to the sitemap. This is a more complex solution and would require a developer with expertise in WordPress.

We hope that helps, and please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

Thank you.