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.
I’ve checked the pages on your screencast, but they are already set to index. Also, I’m unable to find the noindex tag in their source code. They are already included in your sitemap, and your robots.txt looks fine.
In this case, since the last crawl date from the error was outdated, please click the Validate Fix button in the Coverage section area
Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site.
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hi, but it’s all of them? Not just the 17 I showed. See the screenshot attached? Something is preventing google from indexing any of the pages on the site and like I said it started when I installed the plugin. Any ideas how to fix it?
https://share.getcloudapp.com/NQul92Om
Hello,
As the pages are correctly marked index and also submitted to the sitemaps, please clear your website and server’s cache (if any) and remove all the sitemaps from your Google Search Console account, and then submit only the main sitemap: /sitemap_index.xml
Here’s a guide with more details: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
Further, give Google some time to crawl the website again to see if the issue gets fixed.
Hope this helps.
Thank you.
Thanks, I’ve got 4 sitemaps, tried to delete, but they don’t go away…lol
https://share.getcloudapp.com/9Zuo6G80
Hello,
The category-sitemap.xml can’t be deleted because it was automatically added as part of the sitemap_index.xml. If you delete the sitemap_index.xml, all of its sub-sitemaps will be deleted too. If you hadn’t done it already, please remove the sitemap_index.xml and resubmit it and wait for it (and the sub-sitemaps) to be recrawled.
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have questions.
Hello,
I have reopened this ticket so you can refer all your replies to this article. Based on our previous conversation on this ticket, no action needs to be taken on your sitemap files. Please verify you still want to index your category sitemap files.
Looking forward to helping 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.
