Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
Please note that it is completely normal for the sitemap files to be set to No Index since you do not want them to be indexed on SERPs. The sitemaps are intended to be crawled by the search engines but they are not to be indexed/displayed on the search results and hence the sitemaps are kept as No Index.
Also, keeping the sitemaps as No Index does not, in any way, prevent search engines from crawling it.
However, you can use and customize this filter to modify your sitemap’s HTTP header:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#sitemap-headers
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.
