pages are not being index

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your pages not being indexed. It sounds like there may be a few factors at play here.

1. Check Noindex Settings: First, ensure that your posts and pages are not set to noindex in the Rank Math settings. You can do this by navigating to Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta and checking each section to confirm that the settings are as per your preference. If you find any pages set to noindex that you want indexed, change them to index and save the changes.
   

2. Global Settings: Additionally, check your global settings at WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs. Also, ensure that the Discourage Search Engines from indexing this site option is not enabled in WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading.
   

3. Robots.txt File: Make sure your robots.txt file does not contain any disallow rules that might prevent Google from crawling your pages. You can edit your robots.txt file in Rank Math at WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit Robots.txt.
   

4. Google Search Console: Use Google Search Console’s URL Inspection Tool to check the status of your URLs. If they are marked as Crawled – currently not indexed, it could be due to various reasons, including site-wide issues or quality checks by Google.
   

If after checking these settings your pages are still not indexing, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern!

Sources:
Fix Excluded by NoIndex Tag – Google Search Console Status » Rank Math
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.

Please share the affected website URL with so we can investigate this for you.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Hello,

We checked the URL with the site: operator and can see that it is yet to be indexed on Google though it is set with the index tag already:

To understand why the page is yet to be crawled or indexed, please check your Google Search Console to determine any issues reported on your site using the URL Inspection tool: https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome?action=inspect and share the screenshot of the page using this tool: https://imgur.com/upload.

You can follow this guide to fix the indexing issue: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-google-indexing-issues/

Meanwhile, we have provided some guides you can follow to ensure your website keeps showing up on Google search results: https://rankmath.com/kb/google-index/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YYecHEIwMs

Hope this helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

Thank you.

Hello,

The Crawled – currently not indexed status means Google has crawled these pages but has not indexed them. Finding a certain number of URLs with this status is entirely normal because Google does not index all the URLs we submit.

This isn’t an error but there are some reasons for excluding the page from its index. Here’s a link for more information and how to fix it: https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/

There is nothing you can do to solve the Crawled – Currently not Indexed status other than wait for Google to start indexing them, as it means that Google has successfully crawled the URLs but hasn’t decided to index them yet due to reasons only known to them.

Also, the “Sitemap: Temporary Processing Error” is a temporary error on Google’s end and should be resolved independently according to Google.

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.