Hello,
I apologize for the inconvenience you are facing with your website’s sitemap not showing up. To address this issue, please follow these steps:
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Flush Permalinks: Sometimes, flushing permalinks can resolve sitemap visibility issues. To do this, navigate to your WordPress admin area, go to Settings → Permalinks, and click on the "Save Changes" button even if you haven’t made any modifications on the page.
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Check Sitemap Status Code: Ensure that the status code for your sitemap is 200. You can use tools like httpstatus to check the status code. If it’s not 200, redirect all XML sitemap variations to the final variation and clear your website cache before resubmitting the sitemap in Google Search Console.
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Disable Cache: Disable any caching plugins or server-side caching that might interfere with the sitemap functionality.
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.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We appreciate your patience and cooperation.
Warm regards.
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Why the Sitemap_Index.xml is Throwing a 404 Error » Rank Math
I did all these steps already but still this error persists
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.
It seems like your site doesn’t have any published posts or pages. Since there is nothing to be included in the sitemap, it is empty and returning a 404 error. Please publish some posts or pages and the sitemap will work fine.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
ok thanks for your help
let me publish some articles then will tell you
Again thanks for your reply
Hello,
Sure, let us know how this goes.
Meanwhile, if you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime to assist you further.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you so much
you guys made my day
I was missing small but very important step
I have published an article and my sitemap is showing.
Again thank you so much
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post
about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
