Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Please headover to Dashboard > Rank Math > Sitemap Settings > Taxonomies > Category :
And enable the “Include in sitemap” option.
After that flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
So, is it only the categories or other pages that could be missing too?
If you wish to include more pages inside sitemap you can look into the other options inside Sitemap settings.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hi,
shows only 142 categories, but there are 184 categories, some of them still are missing.
I did everything you provided,
thanks.
Hello,
Thanks for getting back.
Can you please share a couple of URLs of the categories that are not being included in the sitemap in the sensitive data section so we can check and assist you further?
We really look forward to helping you.
Hi,
thank you,
sitemaps categories looks updated, this one looks solved, but
the second issue is that the submitted sitemap in the search console not showing all sitemaps.
In our sitemap_index.xml there are 17 different sitemaps, but the search, console shows only 10 – https://puu.sh/HHzVN/a4a2b66501.png
Hello,
Thank you for your reply.
As your sitemap is just updated with the category and other pages soon, Google will index them, give Google at least a week, and your new URLs will be discovered and show inside SERPs.
I hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hi,
our Search console still shows only 10 sitemaps imported, but we have 47 now – added to sensitive data,
where could be the issue ?
Hello,
Thank you for getting back to us.
Since your sitemap contains quite a lot of links this might be the reason why it is taking a while until Google adjusts to the latest update on your sitemap file.
As you can see that the sitemap works well and is actually being discovered. I have also checked and confirmed that it is not being cached at all.
Please note that Google allocates a crawl budget to every website and it stops crawling when it exhausts that budget. It is possible that Google hasn’t yet crawled your website and sitemap to find your site links.
You can as well confirm if the issue is really with the Rank Math sitemap by using a 3rd party sitemap plugin. Just make sure you have disabled the Sitemap module of Rank Math in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard when using a 3rd party sitemap plugin.
If the other plugin works, please do let us know.
We are looking forward to helping 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.
