Hello,
I apologize for the inconvenience you are facing with your website’s sitemap not being updated with the latest posts on techmandu.com. To address this issue, please follow these steps:
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Check Sitemap Generation: Ensure that the sitemap is being generated correctly by visiting your sitemap URL directly: https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/. If it loads and displays the latest posts, then the sitemap is being generated correctly.
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Check Google Search Console: Verify that you have submitted the correct XML sitemap to Google Search Console. Make sure you submitted the sitemap available on your website at https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/.
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Plugin Conflict: If you suspect a plugin conflict, you can use the Health Check plugin to identify and resolve any conflicts that might be affecting the sitemap generation.
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Custom Canonicals: If you have custom canonicals set for your posts, they might not appear in the sitemap. Consider removing custom canonicals from posts to ensure they are included in the sitemap.
If after following these steps, the issue persists, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.
Regarding the Google ranking of your latest posts, it’s essential to ensure that your content is optimized for search engines. If you need assistance with SEO strategies to improve your rankings, feel free to ask for guidance.
Thank you for reaching out, and we are here to help you further.
Best regards
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
I checked the sitemap URLs with https://httpstatus.io/, and it is returning an Okay status (200).
Please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
3. If the above steps don’t seem to work, kindly apply the following filter to your site.
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Let us know how it goes.
Thank you.
Hi
I tried all three mentioned above, but the sitemap is still not being updated.
Actually, I checked the latest posts in the sitemap (https://techmandu.com/sitemap_index.xml) but could not find nor the updated posts.
Regards
Actually, it’s quite random, sometimes it shows up and sometimes it does not.
What could be the issue here?
Hello,
The sitemap is being cached. Please make sure that you have added the filter shared by my colleague to your site. If the issue persists, please remove the XML files from the wp-content/uploads/rank-math folder of your site’s root directory.
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Can you explain why is it happening?
Will there be any issue after deleting these files?
I have deleted the files and sitemap showing latest.
Will it occur again and what will be the permanent solution for this.
I also have my site’s indexing, ranking on google, is it due to this or need to check more?
Regards
Hello,
Those files were the cached version of the sitemap. Since you have removed them and added the filter to disable the caching, the sitemap will no longer be cached and those files will not be generated.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our 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.
