Google crawling and sitemap registration issues

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    hello. I was using Rank Math well in WordPress.

    I registered the sitemap in Google Search Console and the articles were indexed well, but the two recently written articles were not indexed.
    When I run a real-time test in Google Search Console, it says ”
    The page could not be indexed: Blocked by robots.txt” message popped up. So I tried to solve the noindex related problem in various ways, but I couldn’t find anything wrong with my site. In the meantime, I resubmitted the sitemap this time. When I tried it, I couldn’t because the message that the sitemap was html appeared. It seems to be a rank math related error, but what should I do?
    For reference, the plugins I use are amp, coverter for media, rank math, wp fasterest cache, jetpack, google site kit, and easy table of contents. I don’t write anything special. Also, I am using generatepress as a theme.

    How can i solve this problem?

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  • Hello,

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

    Can you please share the affected URLs with us so that we can check the issue further for you?

    Meanwhile, you can try to follow this troubleshooting guide and see if that helps to resolve the issue: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-submitted-url-blocked-by-robots-txt-error/

    Regarding the sitemap issue, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:

    1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    Once done, clear your website cache and resubmit the /sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.

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

    Thank you.

    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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