Hello,
We apologize for the inconvenience you’re experiencing with your product category sitemaps. To resolve the issue of 0 images showing on the XML sitemap, you can follow these steps:
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Ensure that the “Include in Sitemap” option is enabled for product categories in Rank Math SEO > Sitemap Settings > Product Categories.
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Confirm that the product category archives are included in your HTML sitemap by enabling the “Include in HTML Sitemap” option.
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If you have empty product categories, ensure that the “Include Empty Terms” setting is enabled.
By following these steps, you should be able to resolve the issue and have your product category images included in the XML sitemap.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and we appreciate your efforts to qualify for Google image packs. If you have any further questions or need additional assistance, please feel free to let us know.
Sources:
Resolving Rank Math Schema Markup Related Issues
How to Configure Sitemaps in Rank Math – Best Settings and Tips
What Are the SEO Benefits of Sitemaps? » Rank Math
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I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
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All of this information is already set. With these set the issue still exists.
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
We tried to check your sitemap but it is showing the Country blocked error:
In this case, please try to whitelist or open access to countries India, Bangladesh, Portugal, and the Philippines so that we investigate this issue further for you.
Meanwhile, 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/
3. If the above steps don’t seem to work, kindly apply the following filter to your site.
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
countries unblocked. Added the snippet, no change.
Hello,
Please note that Rank Math only includes the images directly added to your category page, not the images of your products.
However, after checking your categories, we can see the images are actually added as a CSS background image to the <div> tag instead of actual images inside the default <img> tag.
Because of this, Rank Math is unable to detect the presence of images on the page (since they are actually not there, just as background images) and thus is also not able to correctly add them to your sitemap.
For Rank Math to recognize the images, they should be added using the <img> tag. Google and other search engines also do not parse background images. Please refer to the following guidelines by Google: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/guidelines/google-images#help-us-discover-all-your-images
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
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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.
