Hello,
Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.
Would you kindly share the URLs that were affected by this issue?
As for initial troubleshooting, can you please follow these steps?
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/
Please let us know how this goes.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
We’ve checked your sitemap and we can see it is working properly without any issues:
However, please note that the Discovered URLs 0 that you see in Google Search Console just means that the URLs in the sitemap were already found by Googlebot by other means, instead of via the sitemap. For example, Googlebot may have found the URLs from internal links or possibly from links on another site. It mostly happens when you have good internal linking or use the Instant Indexing plugin.
Here’s a link you can check for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/zero-discovered-urls-through-sitemap/
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
As my colleague has mentioned, this is quite normal and you shouldn’t be alarmed.
This only means that Google found another way of indexing/finding your pages. If you have done this multiple times, it means that Google doesn’t need to find your URLs via the Sitemaps.
The sitemaps only act as a guide, but it’s left to Google to decide whether to use them.
Each time Google uses a sitemap to find a URL, the count of the Discovered URLs increases by one. When the count of the Discovered URLs is zero, it means Google didn’t use the sitemap to find the URLs.
So no need to be concerned as Google is still indexing your pages normally.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
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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