Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap is not an issue, it only means that Google has already indexed the posts but not through the sitemap.
It is possible that Google is crawling your website and indexing the posts through the internal links on your website and not through the sitemap, and as a result, the crawl budget for your website is exhausted and Google is not able to discover the URLs through your sitemap.
There is nothing to worry about as long as the posts/pages are getting crawled and indexed.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Only 10 articles are live on my site. But the sitemap is showing thousands. I have deleted thousands of articles now. Deleted articles are also showing on the sitemap. Because of this the Search Console coverage error is coming. how do i fix it? You must check the sitemap once and see. https://newsaid.in/sitemap_index.xml
Hello,
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/
3. Check your sitemap post clearing your site and browser cache.
4. If it works fine, please remove all the sitemaps from your Google Search Console account, and then submit only the main sitemap: /sitemap_index.xml.
That should fix the issue. Please let us know if that does not.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank 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.
