Need To Add URLs To Rank Math Sitemap

Hello,

I apologize for the inconvenience you are facing with adding URLs to your Rank Math sitemap. Thank you for providing the URLs and the sitemap link for your site, https://example.com/video-sitemap.xml`

To add URLs to your Rank Math sitemap, you can follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your WordPress dashboard.
2. Navigate to Rank Math SEO > Sitemap Settings.
3. In the Sitemap Settings, you should see an option to include/exclude specific URLs or post types from the sitemap. You can add the URLs that are not included in the sitemap here.

If you are unable to locate this section or need further assistance, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you promptly.

Thank you for reaching out, and we appreciate your patience.

Best regards,

Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
How To Exclude Rank Math Sitemaps from Caching » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
How to Add Sitemaps to Robots.txt » Rank Math
How to Submit a Sitemap to Google » Rank Math

Hello,

Please share the email address you used to purchase the PRO plan so we can verify it first.

As for your issue, the issue is indeed because of the incorrect canonical URL. The current URL should match the canonical URL in the page source:

Once you remove the custom canonical, Rank Math will include that URL in the sitemap.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

Rank Math, by default, automatically adds a self-referencing canonical URL (gray text) to your site if they are set to index. So, you won’t need to fill/add the canonical URL there.

Please note that the canonical box’s purpose would be to inform search engines that it is a duplicate page and should not be indexed.

Here’s a link for more explanation on its usage:
https://rankmath.com/kb/advanced-tab/#canonical-url

Hope that helps.

Hello,

To remove potential duplication is to not set anything in the Canonical URL at all. You just need to let Rank Math generate the Canonical URL (self-referencing URL).

We checked the parent/top pages and they are already included in the sitemap and indexed so there’s no need to change both the parent and children if you want them both indexed.

To resolve the issue for the remaining URLs, we’d advise that you don’t set the canonical URLs from the URLs you want to index, and then make sure they aren’t using duplicate content from the rest of the website.

After doing so, you can flush the sitemap cache and then check to see if the URLs have been added to the sitemap. We have shared a screencast of how you can flush the sitemap cache.

See: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

You may also 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/

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

Hello,

It seems like you’ve marked this ticket as resolved.

Can you please confirm if you still need our assistance with this issue or anything else?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

Thank you.