Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
I checked the URL on Google using the site operator, the URL is already indexed on Google and it is also included in the sitemap.
The Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap is not an issue, it only means that Google has already indexed the posts but not through the sitemap.
It is possible that Google is crawling your website and indexing the posts through the internal links on your website and not through the sitemap, and as a result, the crawl budget for your website is exhausted and Google is not able to discover the URLs through your sitemap.
There is nothing to worry about as long as the posts/pages are getting crawled and indexed.
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Thank you for your response. The product was indexed because I manually requested it to be indexed once I saw that it wasn’t on the sitemap nor indexed. I still don’t understand why it would not be on the sitemap? I just found another product today that is not on the sitemap (which I also had to request manually to be indexed):
https://collectiblesandmoreinstore.com/shop/lilliput-lane-coca-cola-market/
Hello,
Kindly apply this filter code to your theme’s functions.php file and flush the sitemap again by following the video screencast.
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
After that, remove all your sitemaps from your GSC and resubmit only the primary sitemap (sitemap_index.xml).
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you on this one.
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.
Thank you.
