Rank Math Seo Sitemap - Support

Resolved Muhittin Yaşar Sahilli
3 years, 11 months ago

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Hello,

Rank Math Team!

Hope you are having a good day.

1)How can I split sitemaps with Rank Math plugin?

2)Also, how do I define sitemaps in the search console?

Which one would you recommend?

Which is better for SEO.

Is it whole?

For example:
“https://domain.com/sitemap_index.xml”

Or is it piece by piece?

For example:
“https: /domain.com/post-sitemap.xml”
“https://domain.com/category-sitemap.xml”
“https://domain.com/page-sitemap.xml”

3)Why did Rank Math Plugin set the sitemap to sitemap_index.xml and not sitemap.xml?

Are there any differences between these two?

Thank You

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Anas
3 years, 11 months ago

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Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math.

1. You can split the sitemaps and set number of links per sitemap at Rank Math > Sitemap Settings

Please note that some options are only available once you enable Advanced Mode in Rank Math dashboard:

2. You only have to submit the sitemap_index.xml in the search console.

3. sitemap_index.xml is quite a common naming convention, but sitemap URL does not have any effect on SEO.

I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.

Muhittin Yaşar Sahilli
3 years, 11 months ago

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Hello,

Thank you very much for your answers.

We have set up a demo site and we are trying the Rank Math plugin on the demo site.

The problem I have noticed now is that I have defined the demo site in the Search console, but the sitemap shown by the sitemap rank math is missing one.

Search console is showing one missing.

Please Check The Pictures:

Sitemap Shown by Rank Math: https://ibb.co/s5cnXxn

Search Console Defines Sitemap: https://ibb.co/YPsxBcd

Thank You

Anas
3 years, 11 months ago

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Hello,

It looks like Google is seeing a cached version of your sitemap.

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/

Once done, remove all the sitemaps from the search console and add the sitemap_index.xml and wait for Google to crawl the sitemap.

That should fix the issue. Please let me know if that does not. We are here to assist.

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