Hello,
I’m sorry to hear that you are facing issues with submitting your sitemap to Google Search Console. It seems like you have already integrated Google with Rank Math’s analytics module, which should automatically submit the sitemap to Google Search Console.
If you are still experiencing difficulties and receiving error messages like "Your sitemap has no URLs. Validate your sitemap and resubmit it," even after manually submitting the sitemap (sitemap_index.xml), there are a few troubleshooting steps you can follow to ensure the sitemap is set up correctly:
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Validate Your Sitemap: You can use the Validate XML Sitemap tool to confirm that your sitemap is correctly configured. Make sure to click on VALIDATE SITEMAP after entering your sitemap URL.
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Ensure the Sitemap Location: If you manually created the sitemap, ensure it is located in the root folder of your WordPress installation. The correct format should be https://yourdomainname.com/sitemap_index.xml.
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Check Post Indexing Settings: Ensure that your posts are set to index. You can do this by navigating to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta and enabling the Index checkbox in the Robots Meta settings.
If you have followed these steps and are still facing issues, please feel free to reply here, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will take over the ticket to assist you further.
Thank you for reaching out, and we appreciate your patience as we work to resolve this issue for you.
Sources:
How to Submit a Sitemap to Google » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
How to Create HTML Sitemap Using Rank Math » Rank Math
Hello,
We’ve checked your sitemap, and it seems to be working fine.
Could you please share the screenshot of your sitemap section in your Google Search Console so we can check? You can upload screenshots using this tool and add the link here.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
We’ve checked your sitemap from the Google bot’s view, and it is indeed not seeing your sitemap. However, the sitemap is working fine when opening in a browser
For troubleshooting, please follow these steps to flush your sitemap cache:
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. Disable the transient cache for the sitemap by applying this filter. This will make sure that your XML sitemap always reflects the latest changes on your site:
/**
* Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
*
* @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
*/
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
If you’re not sure how to add this code, you can follow this guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Let us know how this goes.
I deeply appreciate your help. I have applied all the information you provided. I will observe the progress for a few days and give feedback again. Thank you.
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.
Hello, I followed the instructions you provided and monitored the progress of the automatic registration on the Search Console. In conclusion, the automatic registration did not occur. However, I noticed that the manual registration is now properly registered. Personally, I think there might have been a problem with the cache plugin. In the wp-optimize plugin, I entered: /(.)sitemap(.).xml /(.*)sitemap.xsl
After doing so, the sitemap was registered, but the RSS was not. When I added /(.*)rss again, both the sitemap and RSS were successfully registered.
I am not sure if I registered the code correctly. Once again, I deeply appreciate your prompt feedback.
P.S. Is automatic registration not supposed to work?
Hello,
Please make sure that you are not connecting to Google Search Console via a domain property but rather a URL prefix and that you have verified the correct version of your website on the Google Search Console (HTTP or HTTPS, www or non-www).
For Rank Math’s automatic submission of sitemap to work properly, you have to use a URL prefix rather than a domain property.
Please note that Rank Math doesn’t handle the generation of your website’s RSS. If your RSS is not loading properly due to caching, you may contact WP Optimize support to help you exclude your RSS pages.
Looking forward to helping you.
I deeply appreciate your support over the time. It has been resolved well. Thank you.
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.
