Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Google has discovered all the URLs.
As you can see, the post_sitemap.xml has a link to the Homepage while the actual posts on your website are only 128.
The Homepage URL is automatically discovered and crawled.
I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.
Your tool is great, but it has some problems finding links.
I have more than 45 links in the category on the site, but only 15 links to the category were discovered, so what is the problem?
When I used one of the competing tools, I didn’t have this problem.
Is there a problem if I do it for example
Hello,
Thank you for keeping in touch with us.
I checked your category sitemap and they have only 15 links shown. Please see this screenshot. Could you please confirm?
If this is not correct, 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/
After doing so, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and submit only the primary sitemap (https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml). See if the issue goes away after doing so.
We are looking forward to helping you.
The problem may be because I added the file in the Google search console like this?
https://ibb.co/92yGjMy
Hello,
As I can see the 15 URL inside the category sitemaps, and you saying you have already 45 category inside your website then there must be having a cache issue:
https://ibb.co/CQYbgFb
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
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.
Did you find out the problem?
Hello,
Thank you for the reply.
After inspecting your website i found that your website has hreflang. You do not need a separate sitemap for translated pages. Your multi-language plugin adds hreflang tag to your translated content so Google knows that it is a translated version of some other page.
They don’t need a language-specific sitemap.
I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
Hello,
Glad that helped.
Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.
We are here to help.
Thank you.
