My product-sitemap.xml is not updating and My Products are tag Nonindexed

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your product sitemap not updating and your products being tagged as noindex. It can indeed be frustrating when some of your products are indexed while others are not.

To address the noindex issue, please ensure that you have not set your products or the entire website to noindex. You can check this by going to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs. Additionally, make sure that the "Discourage search engines from indexing this site" option is not enabled in WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading.

Regarding the sitemap, if it is not updating correctly, you may want to check if there are any settings preventing certain products from being included. Ensure that the products you want indexed are not excluded from the sitemap settings. You can find these settings in Rank Math’s Sitemap settings.

If your product pages have a buy now button and are being treated as checkout pages, this could potentially affect their indexing status. Make sure that these pages are configured correctly in Rank Math’s settings to avoid being marked as noindex.

If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so we can assist you further. A human agent from our support team will take over and provide more specific guidance based on your situation.

Thank you for raising this concern, and we hope to resolve it for you soon!

Sources:
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math

Hello,

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

Can you please share some affected product page URLs with us so that we can check the issue further for you?

Meanwhile, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:

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/

Regarding the source code you’ve shared in the sensitive data section, Rank Math offers a No Index and No Follow option in the admin menu bar, which could show up in the page’s source code when logged in.

The actual noindex tag will be added like this: <meta robots="noindex">

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We’re delighted to hear that this issue has been resolved. We appreciate your feedback.

This ticket will be closed now, but if you ever have another question or need any help in the future, please don’t hesitate to create a new forum topic. We’ll be more than happy to assist you again.

Thank you.