Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that you are facing issues with your website’s sitemap not showing and indexing problems. To address this problem, you can follow the steps below:
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Check Sitemap URL: Make sure you have submitted the correct XML sitemap to Google. You should submit the sitemap available on your website at https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/.
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Plugin Conflict: If you are still facing issues after submitting the correct URL, check for a plugin conflict using the Health Check plugin.
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W3 Total Cache: If you are using W3 Total Cache along with Rank Math, create another user agent group and add the ‘googlebot‘ user agent to it.
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Disable Sitemap Caching: If the above solutions don’t help, include the following filter in your theme’s rank-math.php file:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
By following these steps, you should be able to resolve the issues with your website’s sitemap and indexing. If you need further assistance, feel free to ask.
Thank you for reaching out with your concern.
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
The sitemap is working fine now:
Please follow the steps shared by RankBot to exclude the sitemap from caching if you haven’t already done so to avoid such issues in the future.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Now the sitemap issue is fixed, but after a few days, it gives a ‘not found’ error. Can someone please provide a solution for this?
Hello,
Please add the following filter to your site to disable sitemap cache and avoid 404 error for it:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
Here is how to add a filter to your site: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
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.
