Sitemap is not adding post links(sitemap is not updating automatically)

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support. We’re sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with your sitemap. We’re here to help you fix it as soon as possible.

Have you tried regenerating your sitemap by resaving your sitemap and permalink settings? This will refresh your sitemap and clear any old cache. You can follow the steps in this video to see how to do it: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

You can also try disabling your sitemap transient cache by adding a small code snippet to your site. You can copy and paste this code to your site:

/** 
 * Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
 *
 * @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

If you’re not sure how to add this code to your site, you can refer to this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

We hope this helps you resolve the sitemap issue and make your site run smoothly. If this works, great! If not, please let us know so we can investigate further and find another solution

Thank you for choosing Rank Math.

Hello,

If there are posts/pages not showing before updating them, please check this link for the common reasons why they are not getting included:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-not-in-sitemap/

If the issue still persists, we might need 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.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for getting back to us.

1. The ‘Discovered Pages’ tab only shows the number of pages that were discovered using that sitemap, and because sitemaps are not the only tool Google is using to discover pages, your number of ‘Discovered Pages’ might differ from your number of ‘Indexed pages’ – this isn’t a problem and in fact, it could be a good sign, as it means that you have good internal linking that Google does not need a sitemap to find some of your pages.
2. Can you please confirm if it was your sitemap URL you were inspecting here? Your sitemap URL is not supposed to be indexed by Google – so this is an expected behavior. The sitemap is only a tool for Google to find your actual pages to index. You don’t want your sitemap to show up on Google search results.
3. Using robot.txt to block Google from indexing your origin version URL is possible but please note that this would not solve the initial problem of pages with the origin version as canonical URL not showing up on your sitemap, it would only prevent Google from indexing any of your origin version URL. To block Google from indexing your origin version URL, you can go to Rank Math > General Settings > Edit robots.txt and add this line:

   User-agent: *
   Disallow: https://origin.learnaboutmath.com/*

   Make sure to replace https://origin.learnaboutmath.com/* with your real origin version URL.

We hope this helps address your concerns. If you need help with anything else, please let us know.

Thank you for your patience and cooperation

Hello,

In this case, that might have been the issue. Google might take some time to naturally crawl/index new posts depending on your crawl budget, this can happen within a few hours of publishing or within a few days or even weeks.

A few ways to get Google to crawl your post faster:

• Turn on Ping Search Engines on your Sitemap settings (Rank Math > General Settings > General > Ping Search Engines). This is not a guarantee to get crawled faster but it allows Rank Math to automatically notify Google when a sitemap gets updated.
• Use the Google Indexing API to almost instantly get Google to crawl your new post. We have integrated with this API in our Instant Indexing feature. Learn more on how to use this here

We hope this helps clarify. Thank you for your patience and cooperation