Sitemap not working properly.

Hey there,

Thanks for reaching out to Rank Math support.

We’ve gone through all your sitemaps and they seem to be working just fine. So, it’s okay to ignore the ‘Couldn’t fetch’ status on your category sitemap. Sometimes, Google may show this incorrectly.

As for the favicon issue, we checked the version of your site that’s currently indexed on Google cache and it looks like Google knows about your logo and favicon but isn’t displaying it for some reason. This can happen if your website is relatively new to Google. Eventually, the logo should start to appear.

We hope this clears things up. Let us know if you have any other questions or concerns.

Hello,

1. Please submit the affected posts/pages that aren’t indexed on the SERP to your Google Search Console’s URL inspection tool and share a screenshot of the report here.

2. For your sitemap, try applying this configuration to your server and see if this helps: https://rankmath.com/kb/xml-sitemaps-nginx/

Also, try flushing the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

Then, 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/

You can also apply the following filter code to your site.

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

Here’s how you can add filter to your WordPress site:https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

After doing all that, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and submit only the primary sitemap (https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml).

3. Please note that our plugin doesn’t control the favicon, it is usually your theme that is generating the favicon so you need to make sure that your favicon is properly configured. You may check with your theme author for that or you may refer to this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-favicon/.

Even so, it is up to Google to decide if they wish to insert the icon on the SERP, it will depend on several factors, and website authority is one of those factors.https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/favicon-in-search

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Your sitemap is working fine and Google is able to read it without any issues. For the category sitemap, please confirm whether the issue is still present even after resubmitting it.

Please use the Request Indexing option of the URL inspection tool for the About Us page and wait for Google to crawl it. It can take some time for Google to discover and crawl all the URLs from the sitemap based on the crawl budget they have assigned to your site.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Sometimes, Google may not index a page if it deems the content to be low-quality, duplicate, or not unique enough. Ensure that your About Us page has valuable, unique content that clearly communicates your brand’s message.

Also, ensure that your About Us page and other key pages are linked from other high-authority pages within your site. This can help Google discover and prioritize these pages for indexing.

We hope this helps.

Thanks.