Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap not including all the categories. It seems that the link you provided, `https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-change-canonical-url/ is not appearing in your sitemap.
To troubleshoot this issue, please check the following:
- Category Visibility: Ensure that the category is set to be indexed. You can do this by going to the Rank Math settings for that specific category and confirming that it is not set to "noindex".
- Custom Canonicals: If you have set a custom canonical URL for the page, it may not appear in the sitemap. You can remove the custom canonical to allow Rank Math to generate the canonical URL.
- Sitemap Settings: Check your sitemap settings in Rank Math to ensure that categories are enabled to be included in the sitemap. You can find these settings under Rank Math > Sitemap Settings.
- Plugin Conflicts: Sometimes, other plugins can conflict with Rank Math. You might want to check for any plugin conflicts using the Health Check plugin.
Unfortunately, there is no direct way to manually insert links into the Rank Math sitemap. The plugin automatically generates the sitemap based on your settings and content.
If you continue to experience issues after checking these points, please reply to this ticket with any additional details or errors you may be encountering, and a human agent from our support team will assist you further.
Thank you for raising this concern!
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for your query and we are so sorry about the trouble this must have caused.
Please note that a URL must be set to index and have a self-referencing canonical URL to be included in the sitemap.
We can confirm that your category page is currently set to noindex as you can see from the screenshot below:
To fix this, please head over to your WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math → Titles & Meta → Categories and make sure the robots meta is set to index:
Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping 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.
