Google News Sitemap Issue with RankMath

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.

Could you please share the news sitemap URL so we can check as well?

Meanwhile, Rank Math only includes the posts published in the last 2 days in the News Sitemap as per Google’s News Sitemap Guidelines:
https://support.google.com/news/publisher-center/answer/9606710?hl=en&ref_topic=9606468

You can also see that we have mentioned it in our guide about News Sitemap in the very top section:
https://rankmath.com/kb/news-sitemap/

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

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/

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

Thank you.

Hello,

We checked your posts and we can see lots of them are indexed on Google News.

Even your latest posts are also indexed there:

If you’re referring to the ranking, please note that it depends on so much more than just your on-page optimization. You could have the perfect article and still struggle to break the top 10 in SERPs. Here are some of the factors Google considers when ranking you:

1. Your website’s authority
2. Your content’s quality and how better it is than the other article currently ranking.
3. How competitive the keyword is.
4. How many backlinks you have and if they are better than what the other guys ranking for that keyword have.
5. Your website’s crawlability.
6. Frequency of new content and content updates.
7. So much more that there is a dedicated blog post on it by Brian Dean 🙂 https://backlinko.com/google-ranking-factors

We would recommend that you keep at it and work on acquiring more links to break into the top SERPs. Here are a few resources we think you will find useful while devising an SEO strategy.

1. Keyword Research: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/keyword-research/
2. Identify Keyword Intent: https://www.semrush.com/blog/how-to-identify-intent-in-search/
3. Writing Awesome Content: https://neilpatel.com/blog/ingredients-of-great-content/
4. On-Page SEO: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-optimizing-your-site-for-google/
5. Off-Page SEO: https://mythemeshop.com/blog/how-to-do-seo-off-page-optimization/
6. Building Backlinks: https://rankmath.com/blog/link-building/

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

Hello,

Kindly visit Google News and in the search bar, simply prepend the query site: to your website like so: site:ultimatecricketguru.com.

You should see all the indexed posts from your website: https://news.google.com/search?q=site%3Aultimatecricketguru.com&hl=en-PH&gl=PH&ceid=PH%3Aen

If you see them, then the issue is with the ranking of the keywords for those news content.

Hope that helps.