Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your multilingual sitemap. To ensure that your translated URLs are correctly included in the XML sitemaps generated by Rank Math, you can follow these steps:
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Check Your Sitemap Settings: Ensure that your sitemap settings in Rank Math are configured to include all necessary post types and taxonomies. You can do this by navigating to Rank Math > Sitemap Settings in your WordPress dashboard.
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Verify Translations: Make sure that the translations for your posts/pages are correctly set up in GTranslate. Each translated post should have its own unique URL that corresponds to the translated content.
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Sitemap Index: After confirming the settings, visit your sitemap index at https://rankmath.com/kb/multiple-languages-seo-rankmath-translatepress/#ranking-multiple-languages. From there, you should be able to access the specific sitemaps for each language, such ashttps://rankmath.com/kb/multiple-languages-seo-rankmath-translatepress/#ranking-multiple-languages.
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Use Hreflang Tags: Ensure that hreflang tags are properly implemented on your translated pages. This helps search engines understand the relationship between the original and translated content.
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Check for Plugin Conflicts: Sometimes, other plugins can interfere with sitemap generation. You can use the Health Check plugin to identify any potential conflicts.
If after following these steps you still encounter issues with non-translated URLs appearing in your sitemap, we recommend replying to this ticket with more details about your setup, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.
Thank you for raising this concern, and we look forward to helping you resolve it!
Sources:
How to Perform SEO for Multiple Languages Using Rank Math and TranslatePress » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
Rank Math does not generate sitemaps for the URLs that are translated by GTranslate. This is because GTranslate does not create actual pages for each language, but rather translates them on the fly when a visitor requests them.
But this does not really affect your SEO performance. Multilingual plugins add a special tag called hreflang to your pages, which tells Google and other search engines what language and region your page is targeting. This way, Google can find and index your translated URLs from the hreflang tag, and show them to the relevant users.
If you want to have more control over your multilingual sitemaps, you can also try WPML, TranslatePress, or Weglot as these plugins are fully compatible with Rank Math.
We hope this clarifies your question. Please let us know if you need any further assistance. We’re always here to help 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.
