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.
The last crawled date on the screenshot you shared was last April 3, 2022. This means that Google hasn’t crawled your sitemaps if your changes were made after that date.
Meanwhile, please also share the affected website URL so we can check your sitemap.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
I ran the tests for the robots.txt. Is it normal that the dates are so far apart, or do you only mark those made by me? I’m investigating how to avoid caching sitemap and robots.txt. The latter is my feeling, I don’t know if it’s right. But it seems that the indexing problems are due to the fact that Search Console only sees the first version of the published and indexed pages.
Hello,
I can confirm that the “campaign-sitemap.xml” sitemap is loading fine when you load it in the browser.
If you believe that this issue is due to caching, please ensure that you already have excluded your sitemap from being cached. Here’s the guide which I believe it is already been presented to you in your previous tickets.
Also, clear your website cache including any server-level caching services such as Cloudflare.
Then lastly, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and resubmit only the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml).
See if this fixes the error shown on your GSC.
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.
I have not solved. I went back for this reason.
Hello,
Are you receiving the same error in GSC as before? If so, can you please click on the details of the error so we can further check what’s causing the said error?
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
Hello,
I checked the sitemap URLs with https://httpstatus.io/, and two variations of the sitemap are returning 200 status.
Check screenshot in the sensitive data section.
Please follow this guide and redirect to a final variation:
https://rankmath.com/kb/couldnt-fetch-error-google-search-console/#num-5-4-redirect-all-three-other-versions-to-your-preferred-variation
Once done, clear your website cache and remove all the sitemaps and submit only sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
I solved the problem myself, but the inability to show the site tags to Google remains. that’s where Google sees duplicate pages and penalizes me. Once, the tags were my articles. The tags now have a short description, but Google doesn’t see the updated information.
Why do I have a large number of noindexes? This would explain why Google struggles to see updated posts?
https://imgur.com/a/31ZpzEp
Hello,
The error message in your screenshot is for inspecting your sitemap URL, which is by default set to noindex as they are meant to be crawled and not to be displayed on search results pages.
For your tag pages, if you’re not generating unique content on those pages, you should set them to noindex as they are prone to duplicate error or thin content.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/noindex-category-archive-pages/374867/#close
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
I’m confused. 🙁 Guide not help. yes, not, yes, not. What meant?
Or yes, or not… LOL!
Hello,
We apologize for the confusion.
What my colleague meant, is that in your screenshot, you are checking the sitemap in the URL inspector in the GSC which will surely return an error as sitemap pages don’t have a robot’s meta tag.
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
How do I resolve it? How can I also insert the tags in the sitemaps? Reading the guide you gave me, I realized that it is better to index the categories, following the breadcrumbs, but I could have problems with duplication. What I have not understood is how to do proper SEO on this aspect.
Hello,
Having categories and other taxonomy indexed by Google will tend to cause duplication of content sometimes. However, if you wish to list it in the sitemap, you can head over to your WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Sitemap Settings and enable the taxonomies sitemap.
As for the continuing issue of your sitemap, I tried checking all your sitemap variations again and 2 of the variations are still returning 200. It should only be one as instructed by my colleague here.
Looking forward to helping you on this one.
