Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
To index your PDF or attachments, you may need to disable the Redirect Attachments option in Rank Math > General Settings > Links
Once done, you can control the robots meta for your attachments in Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Attachments. Here’s a guide you can follow:
https://rankmath.com/kb/titles-and-meta/#media
I hope that helps.
Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
Followed the instructions for both suggestions, but the PDFs are still not showing in Google Search Console.
Secondarily, is there a way to have everything index by default? This has been a major issue for SEO in this case as it took us a while to catch what was going on.
Hello,
It will take some time for the attachment pages to get indexed, at least until Google crawls your website again.
You can set the Global as well as all the individual post types robots meta settings to Index, from your WordPress admin area > Rank Math > Titles & Meta.
Please note that this would affect the newer posts/pages/CPTs and not the older ones.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Thanks – I requested manual indexing from the Console itself, which usually happens pretty quickly. I’ll keep an eye on it.
Hello,
Do let us know how it goes. You can give it a couple of days or so and see if the desired pages are indexed.
In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact us if you need our assistance with anything else. Thank 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.
