Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
The sitemap is usually set to noindex
by default. You would not wish your sitemap to be appearing on the SERPs. However this doesn’t mean it won’t be crawled when correctly submitted.
To correctly submit your sitemap, on your GSC please head over to GSC and add your main sitemap only sitemap_index.xml
under the sitemap section. Let us know how it goes.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
Thanks for your help have now submitted the main sitemap as per your instructions and gsc has said they will notify me if there are any further problems.
Thanks a lot for your help and almost immediate response.
Len
Hello,
We are super happy that this issue is already resolved. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind us 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 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.