Hello,
I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with your homepage becoming non-indexable after pushing your staging site to production. This might be related to the SEO settings or configurations during the migration process.
To address this issue, you can follow these steps:
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Reconnect Your Rank Math Account: If you haven’t already, reconnect your Rank Math account on the live site. You can refer to this guide on how to reconnect your Rank Math account.
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Set Your Site to Index: Ensure that your site is set to be indexed by search engines. You can navigate to WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading and deselect Search engine visibility if it’s selected. Then, click Save Changes.
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Re-Verify Your Site on Google: If you previously verified your staging site on Google Search Console, you will need to re-verify it using the URL of the live site. If you haven’t verified your site before, you should do so using the URL of the live site. You can refer to this guide on verifying your site on Google.
If after following these steps the issue persists, please feel free to reply here, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further.
Thank you for reaching out with your concern.
Sources:
How to Use Rank Math on a Staging Site » Rank Math
How to Fix “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for the inconvenience caused.
Please share your website URL so we can check this for you.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
We have checked your website and we can see that it is already set to index and it is already indexed by Google. Screenshots:
Can you please share a screenshot of where you are seeing this issue?
We are looking forward to hearing back from you.
That’s good to know! I only thought it was non-indexable because I got an alert from ahrefs.com, saying my website’s homepage “Sitemap in the wrong format” and “Indexable page became non-indexable”. Are both of these untrue then?
Hello,
Currently, it seems that the sitemap is cached which could cause the error you are seeing about it.
Can you please follow these steps?
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/
That should fix the issue.
As for the other issue with the indexable page that became non-indexable, it doesn’t necessarily refer to the homepage, it could refer to any other page on the website where the status was changed.
If the report has details about the page that triggers this error you could share that with us and we can try to explain if that was something that could possibly have been caused by our plugin.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
I just followed step #1, however I don’t currently use a caching plugin, so I don’t think step #2 applies. As for the indexable page that became non-indexable, this is what ahrefs said: https://imgur.com/a/DhvVWrn
Hello,
1. Even if you are not using any caching plugin, you can still add this code to your website to disable Rank Math transient cache:
/**
* Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
*
* @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
*/
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
You can learn how to add this code to your website here: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
2. The image you shared is very low-res and we’re unable to see the information on the screenshot. Please share a much clearer image so we can help take a look.
Thank you for your patience and cooperation
