Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Could you please share some of the URLs affected so we can check. You should also check to ensure the URLs are available on your site and if not, they are redirected correctly.
Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.
there are 100’s of urls pl check the products, most of them are not indexed
Search Google for
site: MOVED TO SENSITIVE DATA SECTION
and then check the Sitemap.. you will see the difference
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This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by
Alberto.
Hello,
I have checked it and you have 543 results in Google Search results and around 600-700 on your sitemap.
But keep in mind you have several categories, brands and tags set as no-index since they are returning a 404 page, so that is why they are not being indexed, lowering the number of results on Google compared with the sitemap.
Looking forward to help you.
Hello
If you check properly out of valid 600 URLs only 140 URLs are indexed, indexed not submitted in the sitemap are 460 odd URLs and excluded Urls are 740 odd…
and you are saying there are more than 500 results in Google??
Pl search for “site:https://hotbrands.in ” in Google there are only 10 search results on google search
I fail to understand.. if you are not able to help let me then change the plugin, please.
Waiting for your reply
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This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by
Sunil Joshi.
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This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by Sunil Joshi.
Hello,
I also checked your site on Google and currently there are 640 pages, here is a screenshot: https://i.rankmath.com/zwt0bb
Checking you sitemap, it only has around 536 URLs.
If you have any caching plugin, please exclude your sitemap URLs from caching and purge your site cache then 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. You can try validating it on this link: https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html
If the validation works, please resubmit your sitemap on GSC..
You should also ensure you have verified the correct version of your website on Google. Please check if you have verified the www (or non-www) and https (or http) version of your website. If there is a mismatch, please fix that.
If you have followed these and you are able to view your sitemap without any problem, then Rank Math is outputting your sitemap correctly and the error must be coming from Google. You can try and use a 3rd party sitemap plugin to confirm. Just make sure you have disabled the Sitemap module of Rank Math in WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard when using a 3rd party sitemap plugin.
If the other plugin works, please do let us know.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hi Sunil,
It is pretty common for Rank Math to show a number of results and then show something else when you try to go to the last page of SERPs.
With that being said, there is only one thing that would cause your pages to disappear from SERPs due to Rank Math. That reason is if you deliberately or accidentally set your products to be noindex.
Checking your product pages on your website, I do not see any important pages set as noindex. I checked through them all:
So, we can rule out that this was due to Rank Math.
The other reasons for getting your URLs removed from the indexed are:
1. You submitted a removal request via GSC which we can rule out.
2. Your website got penalized due to spam or duplicate content.
3. Your website has issues and page are not opening.
While we can’t do anything about 1 and 2 and that doesn’t seem to be the case in this instance, it is likely that your pages got removed because they do not exist or you have changes their URLs without redirecting them.
I checked a few URLs that ARE indexed and most of them are throwing a 404. Here is a screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/0zfOwa
I request you to fix these issues and/or redirect the old product URLs to the new/correct URLs. Then, wait a month until Google gets to index them once again.
I am not sure why they are not opening up but the main reasons are:
1. Changing the permalink structure
2. Changing the URL base
3. Having server issues
You might want to backtrace what changes you made and undo them or fix them.
If you need our help with anything, we are always here for 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.
