Site index does not show translated versions of custom CT archives - Support

Resolved Pieter de Mink
3 years, 10 months ago

Rank Math free

Hello Support,

I am not sure what I am doing wrong. What I did:

Using CPT UI I have created custom content types amongst which products_b2b
Using Elementor I have created templates for its archive page and for its posts
Using WPML I have translated the archive template, the post template and the posts themselves (products_b2b’s)

I can now visit all the different versions:
(links in sensitive data field)

I use RankMath to generate the sitemap.xml and I have enabled this content type to be indexed and to be added to this sitemap.

What I expect: a sitemap with the archive and its two posts in all languages

What I see: a sitemap with the archive in only English and the two posts in all languages. So a total of 7 links instead of 9.

My question: why is are the translated versions of the archive not included? Which setting is responsible? In the meantime I have several times resaved/flushed the permalinks to try to force a refresh of the sitemaps.

Thank you,
Pieter

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Michael Davis
3 years, 10 months ago

Rank Math pro

Hello,

Thank you for getting in touch with us.

You sitemap is being generated separately for each of your translations. Your english version sitemap can be accessed at https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml and your Dutch sitemap can be accessed at https://www.yourdomain.com/nl/sitemap_index.xml.

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Pieter de Mink
3 years, 10 months ago

Rank Math free

Hello Support,

I am sorry but that does not seem to resolve my issue.

(1) https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml only links to
https://www.yourdomain.com/products_b2b-sitemap.xml and NOT
https://www.yourdomain.com/nl/products_b2b-sitemap.xml

(2) https://www.yourdomain.com/products_b2b-sitemap.xml does contain translations (for instance Dutch) of the original language so these are indexed double as the also exist in https://www.yourdomain.com/nl/products_b2b-sitemap.xml

(3) again, https://www.yourdomain.com/products_b2b-sitemap.xml does not contain all translations, only of posts, not of all archives.

(4) as only https://www.yourdomain.com/products_b2b-sitemap.xml is linked to from https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml only these links are submitted to Google. https://www.yourdomain.com/nl/products_b2b-sitemap.xml is thus not submitted. Therefor all the translated archives are not submitted to Google.

(5) since my caching plugin uses these sitemaps to preload cache, parts of my website are now not being cached.

Could you please comment on each of these 5 points and have another look at the (initial) problem at hand? I simply, at the moment, do not get a complete indexing and what is being indexed is partially double/redundant.

Kind regards,
Pieter de Mink

Alberto
3 years, 10 months ago

Rank Math business

Hello,

1. As my colleague suggested, since you have a multilingual website, you have two sitemaps to add to GSC:
/sitemap_index.xml
`/nl/sitemap_index.xml

It also solves the question 4. About 5, you should also add in your caching plugin to check /nl/sitemap_index.xml to preload.

About questions 2 and 3, 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.

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.

RankBot
3 years, 9 months ago

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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