Hello,
Thank you for contacting the support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
I checked your sitemap page and it seems to be loading just fine.
Can you please follow these steps?
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. After that, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and resubmit only the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml).
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thanks for getting back to me. Did the above steps and resubmitted the sitemap. Results are still the same.
https://ibb.co/BC6yFF7
https://ibb.co/5nyWyqw
Hello,
Thank you for your patience.
I’ve checked your sitemaps, and they seem to be working fine.
However, your robots.txt includes your sub-sitemaps. Please update the sitemap line with your index only like in our recommended robots.txt rules:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/#default-rules
If the issue still persists, please try removing your submitted sitemaps in your GSC and submitting your sub-sitemaps instead.
Let us know how this goes.
Thank you.
Changed the robots file as well and resubmitted the sitemap. The issue still persists.
https://ibb.co/Nt91Y85
https://ibb.co/rwDx3my
Hello,
Discovered URLs 0 that you see in Google Search Console just means that the URLs in the sitemap were already found by Googlebot by other means, instead of via the sitemap. For example, Googlebot may have found the URLs from internal links or possibly from links on another site.
Crawling and indexing of the website depends on the authority and crawl budget of the website.
It is completely upto Google if they want to index or not index your website. So, if you haven’t willingly or accidentally made your post noindex and Google still isn’t indexing your post – it means that either Google doesn’t want to index or hasn’t crawled your post yet because it hasn’t allocated that much crawl budget to your website.
Hope that helps.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
If google found my websites through other means, shouldn’t my pages should be already indexed by now? By the way, no posts are noindex, I checked them manually.
What should I do to make the sitemap read again?
Hello,
I tried to check your sitemap but your site is returning a 404 error.
Let us know when it is accessible again so we can check this further.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thanks.
I checked the sitemap file on search console and it says No: ‘noindex’ detected in ‘X-Robots-Tag’ http header. Is this causing the error?
https://ibb.co/hDpSH5m
Hello,
The error message in your screenshot is for inspecting your sitemap URL, which is by default set to noindex as they are meant to be crawled and not to be displayed on search results pages.
I’ve checked your website using the site: operator, and your pages are already showing on the search results page. Here’s the link for your reference.
Please note that it is completely normal for a newly published post/page/website to take time before it gets crawled or indexed by Google. It depends on a lot of factors. Your posting frequency + the domain authority are just two of the many factors Google considers when indexing some new URL. Google assigns a crawl budget to your website depending on these factors (especially these two) and that has a direct effect on how soon or how late your content can get indexed.
If noindex is not present, then it is just a waiting game before Google decides to include the URL in the index. No SEO plugin can force Google to index something they don’t want to.
With that said, we have found that barring any issues like copied/DMCA/low-quality content issues – Google usually indexes posts within a week or two. So, we request you to kindly wait.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/google-index/
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
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.
