How To Exclude URLs From XML Sitemap

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

No this is not expected behavior. Could you please do the following:

1. Head over to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks

Hit the save button once.

2. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Sitemap Settings

Hit the save button once.

That should fix the issue.

If it doesn’t, please do let us know so we can look at this further.

Hello,

Could you please check the if the URL has been actually set to noindex in the page source:

You can also use the page Rank math metabox in the adavnced tab to set the page to noindex:

Another option to exclude the page would be to add the id in the exclude posts field in Rank math > Sitemap settings > General

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hello,

Then 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 tested the URL you shared here: https://smallseotools.com/meta-tags-analyzer/ and it was set to index. I changed it to noindex in Rank math metabox under the advanced tab:

That seems to have fixed the issue. Please check your sitemap in a private browser and let us know.

Looking forward to helping you.