Meta Data

Hello,

I’ve read this entire thread and while inspecting your website, I noticed that the sitemaps were redirecting to the 404 page. You can have a look at the screencast in the sensitive data section of this ticket.

This usually happens when the sitmeaps are getting cached. I logged into your website’s admin area and though I was unable to find a dedicated caching plugin, I flushed the sitemap’s cache by following this screencast and the sitemaps are loading properly now: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

Please exclude the Sitemap files of Rank Math from any caching service that you’re using. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

Once done, clear your website’s cache and remove all the sitemaps from your Google Search Console account, and then submit only the main sitemap: /sitemap_index.xml

Here’s a guide with more details: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/

With that said, there are a few things discussed in this thread that I would like to clerify:
1. It is important to note that a page set to Index in the robots meta settings does not guarantee that the page would get indexed on the SERPs. Indexing depends on the sole discretion of the search engines.

2. The Instant Indexing plugin helps your pages to get crawled faster. Using the plugin does not always result in the instant indexation of the content. It may take anywhere from minutes to days or even weeks before a URL is indexed. The above first point also applies here.

The Instant Indexing API only sends a request to the search engine to get the content indexed faster. Once the request is sent, it is totally up to the search engines to index the pages, and this may take less or more time.

Crawling and indexing depend on the authority, crawl budget, content quality, and many other factors. Here’s an article listing some of the best practices to get your website indexed regularly: https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-index/

3. Requests sent from Instant Indexing are different from using the URL Inspection tool of Google Search Console. Instant Indexing sends the request to the Indexing API of Google and then the above-mentioned second point applies.

4. The data we show in the Index Status tab of the Analytics section, comes directly from the Indexing API of Google. So, except for the cases when the data is not fully fetched/updated, the data we show is what is present in the Indexing API of Google.

However, I’ve triggered the data fetch from the scheduled actions and it would take around 40 minutes to fully fetch the data. Please wait for that time and see if the result changes.

In any case, I suggest you clear your website’s cache and resubmit the sitemaps to your Google Search Console account as suggested above and wait for Google to crawl the website again and see if the results get updated.

Please feel free to let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you.