Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that you’re experiencing issues with your sitemap. It’s important to ensure that all your pages are correctly indexed and included in the sitemap for proper visibility.
To address this issue, you can follow these steps:
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Check if Your Sitemap is Accessible: You can use the httpstatus.io tool to check the status of your sitemap URL and identify any issues preventing it from being accessed by search engines.
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Ensure the Sitemap is Located in the Root Folder: If you manually created the sitemap, ensure it is installed in the root folder of your WordPress installation. The correct format for the sitemap URL should be `https://rankmath.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Index-titles-and-meta-settings.png
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Validate Your Sitemap: You can use the Validate XML Sitemap tool to confirm that your sitemap is correctly configured.
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Ensure Your Posts Are Set to Index: Check if your posts are set to index by heading over to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta and enabling the Index checkbox in the Robots Meta settings.
If you’ve gone through these steps and are still experiencing issues, please let us know, and we’ll be happy to assist you further.
Thank you for reaching out!
Sources:
Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap – Google Search Console » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
How to Configure Sitemaps in Rank Math – Best Settings and Tips
I followed all 4 steps and all is clean.
Note: if I add a new page and index it in rank math settings it works correctly so only these 141 pages are concerned…
Thanks for your help!
Hello,
Thanks for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
We checked and can see that the page has been set with the noindex, nofollow tags as shown in the image below:
Kindly check these pages and ensure that they are set to index.
You can follow the guide below to set these pages to index in bulk: https://rankmath.com/kb/bulk-editing-in-rank-math/#set-to-index
Hope this helps and don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
No, this is a staging site for now so I put in no index all pages…
Please, connect on back-end and check yourself you will see it.
Thanks for your help!
Hello,
In this case, the pages will be automatically included in your sitemap whenever you uncheck the Search engine visibility option in WP Dashboard > Settings > Readings. If they don’t get included, you can try to follow the steps from this video screencast to flush your sitemap cache: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
1) I unchecked the Search engine visibility option in WP Dashboard > Settings > Readings and it doesn’t work.
2) I follow instructions on your video to flush my sitemap cache and it still doesn’t work…
Thanks!
Hello,
We logged in to your site using the provided access details in the sensitive data section of this ticket.
Upon checking we can indeed see that the pages do not appear in the sitemap.
This looks like a heavy server caching issue.
Could you please contact your hosting provider and ask them to completely delete all the server level caches and hard reset the server caches.
Let us know how that goes.
Thank you.
Hello Alhan,
I confirm you that my hosting provider completely delete all the server level caches and hard reset the server caches but issue is still not fixed…
What can I do? This content is a big part of our SEO strategy and we are blocked since 1 week with this bug.
Thanks for your help!
Hello,
We would like to further debug the issue by checking some XML cached files in your website folders, however, the File Manager plugin isn’t working on your website.
Can you please also share your FTP login here with us?
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
Thank you for the additional information. We have shared this information with our developers and they are currently reviewing it. We’ll get back to you with an update once we have one.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math
Hello,
We were able to identify the cause of the issue and applied a temporary patch on your website.
A permanent fix will also be included in an upcoming release.
We apologize for the inconveniences that this issue might have caused.
Thank you
Hello,
Bug is still here and URLs not showing into pages sitemap…
Hello,
The patch might have been overwritten by an update; but even better we had a discussion and it seems RankMath does not expect post meta of rank_math_robots to have a value of NULL which is causing this issue (might be, you imported this data and this issue developed), and instead of adding a fix for this, it will be better to remove rank_math_robots metas that have a value of NULL from your website.
To do this, please make a database backup of your site and let us know, so we may run below query to remove the NULL rank_math_robots metas.
Query at this public gist
Also it seems like the admin login details are not working anymore, could you please correct that as well.
We are looking forward to having this issue resolved.
Thank you
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
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.
