Page Sitemap is Empty

#113999
  • Resolved Michael McGowan
    Rank Math free

    I just installed Rank Math today after launching a site. The site had been hidden from search engines during development, but I unchecked the box in WordPress settings today and changed all pages, one-by-one, to index from no-index. Each page shows the SEO status properly on the list of pages. The sitemap settings for pages is set to “on”. I also excluded the site maps from the WP Rocket caching plugin. All my custom posts are showing in the sitemap; it is just the regular pages that do not show. I’ve tried everything that I’ve read on similar trouble tickets to no avail. How do I get the page sitemap to generate properly.

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for getting in touch and I am extremely sorry about the trouble this might have caused.

    There are a few things you must check for in order to see why the posts aren’t getting indexed.

    1. Make sure the pages are not selected as ‘noindex’ in WP > Pagess > Your Page > Advanced Tab in Rank Math.
    Screenshot:

    Individual Post Advanced Tab

    2. Ensure that the noindex is not selected for Global or Pagess meta:

    Noindex Settings

    3. Check the sitemap settings and check if the pages are setup to be included in the sitemaps in Rank math > Sitemap Settings > Pages.

    If the issue persists, please share you site URL so we can check from our end.

    Looking forward to help you.

    Thank you. The problem, which was limited to the page site map (out of 9 total site maps), was corrected after I installed the latest update. Earlier, Bing had complained that the site map was missing a closing XML tag. Google noted that the site map contained zero URLs. Whatever the original cause, the problem is resolved.

    Hello,

    Glad that this is resolved.

    Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.

    We are here to help.

    Thank you.

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