Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for the inconvenience caused to you.
Your website changes might not be getting updated because of the cache in your website.
I would request you to exclude the sitemaps from the cache and clear the cache as well from your website.
Excluding the sitemaps from caching will help in updating the sitemaps automatically when new posts/pages are published or updated.
Having the posts in sitemaps helps in indexing as the crawler can crawl the posts efficiently.
You might also need to remove the old sitemap_index.xml and submit it again.
You can use this tool for the same as well: https://www.heymeta.com/
Please note that it takes some time for Google to reflect the changes.
We hope that helps. Please let us know if you need help with anything else.
Thanks
Hello, this is currently happening across multiple sites we have, some sites use a different cache plugin. I did clear cache on both sites and am still having the same issue, however when I switch the site over to a testing environment on a different domain that serves HTTP: instead of HTTPS: with Cloudflare it fixes the issue???
Hello,
Thank you for the update.
I’ve tried checking your site, and it seems that you’re getting the error message below upon saving your settings. I’ve attached a screencast in the sensitive data section.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 ()
/wp-json/rankmath/v1/updateMeta?_locale=user:1
That error can happen for several reasons like not valid permissions in folders, incorrect .htaccess, or blocked by a firewall from the web host.
You can check this link for more information:
https://docs.presscustomizr.com/article/195-http-error-403
In this case, please get in touch with your web host and check if something is blocking the WordPress API REST. Please also ask them to check the Firewall Settings and whitelist the updateMeta rule.
I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance with anything else.
Thank you for the quick reply you guys are great!
Hello,
We are super happy that we have addressed your concern. 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 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.
