Google indexing 404s and 301s

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for the delay and for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

If your sitemap still includes those 404 and redirected pages, it seems that your sitemap is getting heavily cached.

Please follow these steps for initial troubleshooting:

1. Ensure you’re using the latest version of your plugins/theme including the Rank Math plugin.

2. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/xXXhDt

3. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

You can also share your website URL so we can check.

I hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Could you please also share the 404 and 301 URLs you are referring to that are still being indexed? I’ve tried checking some of your URLs, but they are opening fine.

However, your robots.txt includes sitemap links which are not in your current sitemap. Please remove the first 2 sitemap lines in your robots.txt. Here’s a link on how to edit your robots.txt:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

Once done, please try removing all your submitted sitemaps in your Google Search Console account then resubmit your main sitemap only.

Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your site.

I hope that helps.

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.