My sitemap is blank even in source code

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  • Resolved Kevin H
    Rank Math free

    Hi,

    My sitemap is blank and the source code is empty. We recently switched from Yoast to RankMath.

    I tried every solution on forums wich I could find. We also tried to reproduce the problem with the Health Check plugin. When activated the standard theme and only enable RankMath plugin, the sitemap and source code are blank.

    We also tried to clear caches from wp rocket and cloudflare and we have added a rule in wp rocket to not cache the sitemap.

    We also cleared sitemap cache in RankMath and saved permalinks again.

    What to do next?

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  • Kamlesh
    Rank Math free

    Hello,

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

    If you have checked for conflicts using the Health Check plugin and the standard theme along with the activated Rank Math plugin is also giving a blank page, then it might be possible that you have a static file with the same name as your sitemap file (sitemap_index.xml).

    In this case, you should FTP into your server and remove that particular file.

    Post that, check if the issue is resolved?

    Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

    Kevin H
    Rank Math free

    Thank you for your fast response.

    We fixed the problem, the problem was a preloaded url in perfmatters. Thanks a lot!

    Other question:
    We have a lot of attributes in our shop. In the Setup Wizard we get the option to add all Public Taxonomies in the sitemap, should we do this? Is it better for our products to be found?

    Here you can see a screenshot of a part of our taxonomies:
    https://ibb.co/ydG0608

    Last question:
    Is it enough to only add sitemap_index to Google Search Console, or do we need to add the sitemaps too? For example the landing page, HTML Blocks sitemap etc.

    Thanks in advance!

    Hello,

    These pages are considered thin content if they don’t have unique content as they might exhaust your website’s crawl budget. However, this is a case-to-case basis, and that is completely optional if you wanted to include your product attributes in your sitemap.

    Here’s a link for more explanation:
    https://moz.com/community/q/topic/60109/indexing-product-attributes-in-sitemap

    When you submit the Sitemap Index (sitemap_index.xml) to the search engine, they can automatically pull out all the sitemaps on your website so that you don’t have to submit each sitemap manually.

    I hope that helps.

    Thank you.

    Kevin H
    Rank Math free

    Yes thanks a lot this was helpfull.

    1 small question:
    Why can’t I see that I am connected to search console? I can not see the Search Console button at the left side (as in the tutorial movies I saw) and I can not see the option Search Console in my dashboard to enable or disable.

    Hello,

    We don’t have a separate tab for Search Console since version 1.0.49 as it is now part of the Analytics Module. You can check all the stats in WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Analytics.

    To connect your GSC and GA account, please navigate to WP dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Analytics.

    Hope this helps.

    Let us know if you need any other assistance.

    Kevin H
    Rank Math free

    Yes that helps a lot thank you!

    I wish you a great day! Thank for the good support and fast response!

    Hello,

    We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

    If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

    If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

    Thank you.

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