Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math.
If your sitemaps are excluded from caching, then Rank Math will automatically update the sitemap and ping the search engines.
Here is a guide to exclude the sitemaps from caching:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
After excluding the sitemaps from caching, you need to submit the sitemap manually once.
Also, make sure the Ping Search Engines option is enabled at Rank Math > Sitemap settings > General:
I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.
Thanks for your answer.
As with the original question, again the settings are different from your guide. I can’t find the setting to access htaccess
Also it confuses me that only BING is mentioned when Google has almost the entire market
Could you share some light on this?
Thanks!
Hello,
Please note that some options are only available when you enable Advanced Mode in Rank Math dashboard:
Please kindly enable the advanced mode and you will able to see the .htaccess tab.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Thank you, I had simply overlooked that.
I don’t have a caching plugin, but I’d like to check this: “Now, check your sitemap to see if it is excluded from cache, if not, proceed with the next step to change your cache plugin’s configuration.”
But how does one check if the sitemap is cached?
And by this: “After excluding the sitemaps from caching, you need to submit the sitemap manually once.”
Did you mean go to Google Search Console and register the sitemap there again?
Hello,
I don’t have a caching plugin, but I’d like to check this: “Now, check your sitemap to see if it is excluded from cache, if not, proceed with the next step to change your cache plugin’s configuration.”
If you are not using any caching plugin, then you don’t have to worry about it. Just make sure your web hosting is not applying the global caching rule for the file type .xml. If your post/pages are regularly adding to your sitemap, that means there are no caching enabled on your sitemap.
And by this: “After excluding the sitemaps from caching, you need to submit the sitemap manually once.”
Did you mean go to Google Search Console and register the sitemap there again?
Inside GSC, make sure you have only one, i.e. (sitemap_index.xml) present and not all the sitemap files individually added by you. If you have added the sitemap file individually, then you will have to remove it from the GSC.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thanks again for the instructions and details. They only thing I’m in doubt about now is that when I search in google with site:www.mywebsite.com I still see a SEO titles for the pages that are days old.
How quickly show this update normally?
Hello,
There is no specific time when will Google or other search engines will recrawl your site to update the data on the search results pages.
If you’re referring to a wrong meta title/description showing on the search results page, you can check this link for more information and troubleshooting steps:
https://rankmath.com/kb/different-meta-title-and-description/
I hope that helps.
Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
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.
