Hello,
Thank you for contacting us, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
“”noindex” was detected in the HTTP header “X-Robots-Tag”‘
The noindex tag is added to the sitemaps on purpose, and you shouldn’t be worried about that, as it’s completely fine and absolutely normal to have noindex tag on your sitemap URLs. The sitemaps, by default, are set to noindex so that it doesn’t get indexed and appear in the search results.
The sitemap is just a way to tell Google what pages and posts you have on your website, not a page that you want to show up in search results. This is true for any sitemap, even ours.
The important thing is that your pages and posts are set to ‘index’, which means that they are eligible to appear in Google search results. You can check this by looking at the Rank Math settings on each page or post, or by using the Google URL Inspection tool.
To make sure that Google knows about your sitemap and can crawl your pages and posts, you need to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console. This is a simple process that you can follow by using our tutorial: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/
We hope this clarifies your doubts. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. We’re always happy to help.
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.
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