Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with Rank Math showing double product sitemaps on your websites. This can happen due to various reasons, such as conflicts with other plugins or incorrect settings in the sitemap configuration.
Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot and potentially resolve the issue:
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Check for Plugin Conflicts: Use the Health Check plugin to identify if any other plugins are conflicting with Rank Math.
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Review Sitemap Settings: Go to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings and ensure that you do not have duplicate entries for your product sitemaps.
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Flush Permalinks: Sometimes, simply flushing the permalinks can resolve sitemap issues. You can do this by going to Settings → Permalinks in your WordPress dashboard and clicking Save Changes without making any changes.
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Clear Cache: If you are using a caching plugin, clear the cache to ensure that the latest sitemap is being served.
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Check for Static Files: Ensure there are no static files named sitemap_index.xml or similar in your server that might be causing conflicts.
If these steps do not resolve the issue, please reply to this ticket with the URLs of the websites experiencing this problem, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
its not working on my sites!
Hello,
Thank you for reaching out.
Please share the sitemap URL with us so we can investigate the issue further. Once we have the URL, we’ll be able to assist you better.
Please note that depending on the number of products on your site and the Links Per Sitemap you have configured on your site, Rank Math will split the product sitemaps when that limit is reached and create new product sitemaps. So you will likely see https://yourdomain.com/product-sitemap1.xml,https://yourdomain.com/product-sitemap2.xml, https://yourdomain.com/product-sitemap3.xml, etc
This is fine as Googlebot finds it easier to crawl smaller sitemaps
We hope this helps. Please let us know if you have further questions or concerns.
Thank you.
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.
