Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Just to be sure, have you some posts added to those categories? Since as you can see in your first screenshot, Rank Math has disabled the option to include empty categories in the sitemaps, so if there are no posts of none of the categories, no categories sitemap will be created.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Hello Alberto,
Thanks for writing back.
Yes, there are posts available in some categories but it’s not creating the sitemap at all for the categories and google is fetching posts without categories as you can see in the screenshots.
What you suggest should I enable the empty categories option to get the category sitemap?
Awaiting your response.
Thanks
Hello,
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hey Micheal,
I have updated the data. Kindly check it.
Thanks
Hello,
I checked your site and you had set categories to noindex in Rank math > Titles & Meta > Categories under robots meta.
I set this to index, added your sitemap URLs to be excluded from caching(WP Rocket settings > Advanced Rules) and cleared your cache which seems to have fixed your issue.
Please check to confirm. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Hey Micheal,
Thank you for your reply.
Yes, I had set categories to noindex in Rank math.
Kindly clarify is this only for archive categories or all categories (Live + Archive).
Awaiting your reply.
Hello,
Thank you for the follow up.
Global settings in Rank math > Titles & Meta > Posts/Pages don’t affect already existing posts/pages. Setting the categories to index/noindex globally in Rank math will affect only the categories you create under WordPress Dashboard > Posts > Categories.
You can still set them to noindex individually using Rank math metabox in the advanced tab.
By default the category sitemap only includes the categories that are assigned to post(s). If you want to also include unassigned categories, please enable the option to include empty terms in Rank math > Sitemap settings >
Hope that helps. If you have any further question(s), please let us know. Thank you.
Hey Micheal,
Thank you for your amazing help. Just want to know one more thing about Date in SERPs.
I want to know how we can change the date in SERPs of an old published post.
Thanks.
Hello,
Serps take the date your theme is setting when publishing the post, so you should change the date of the post and wait until Google crawls it again. Here is a guide you might find useful: https://wpallresources.com/change-post-publish-date-wordpress/
Looking forward to help 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.
