Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Go to the category > SEO Settings > Advanced Tab > Check index checkbox
If you have already set the URLs to index, submit the URLs in the URL inspection tool in the Search Console and wait for Google to crawl those URLs.
Also, exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/
Then, remove the sitemaps from the Search Console and add sitemap_index.xml again.
I hope this helps. Looking forward to helping you.
Hello,
I went to category > SEO Settings > Advanced Tab > Check index checkbox
Index check box is checked and also No archive check box is checked as I don’t want page 2, 3, etc of categories page showing up in search results, Is this the correct setting?
Also I have excluded site map in wp-rocket advanced settings and resubmitted the site map in search console.Please advise.
Hello,
Thank you for keeping in touch with us.
We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress login in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
currently 38 urls are showing as no index in google search console
Hello,
Thank you for that information.
I’ve checked some of your category pages, and they are already set to index. Could you please also share some affected URL/s to check further?
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have checked the URLs and all of them are already set to index.
You need to wait for Google to re-crawl your sitemap and your website and index these URLs. Crawling depends on the authority and crawl budget of your website.
Let us know if you have any questions.
We are here to assist you.
in that case let us wait and watch. Lets keep this ticket open. I will update again in a day or two
Hello,
Let us know how this goes. We will keep this ticket open for you and if you have any further questions (s), please let us know.
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.
