Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap not being crawled by Google for such an extended period. There could be several reasons for this, and we appreciate you bringing it to our attention.
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Blocked by Robots.txt: Ensure that your robots.txt file is not blocking Google from crawling your site. You can use the robots.txt testing tool to check this.
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Sitemap Submission: Check if your sitemap is correctly submitted in Google Search Console. If it’s not submitted, you can add it again by going to the sitemaps section in GSC and entering your sitemap URL.
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Last Crawl Date: In Google Search Console, check the last crawl date of your sitemap. If it hasn’t been crawled recently, you might want to remove and resubmit the sitemap to prompt Google to crawl it again. You can find instructions on how to do this in the Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap article.
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Site Quality Issues: Sometimes, if there are quality issues with your site or if Google has deemed it low quality, it may not crawl your sitemap. Ensure that your site adheres to Google’s quality guidelines.
If you continue to experience issues, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so that a human agent can assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we hope to help you resolve it soon!
Hello,
We checked your sitemap, and we can see that it is working properly without any issues.
In this case, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin from 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/
Once done, clear your website cache, remove all the submitted sitemaps, and resubmit only the /sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console.
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
I think the problem might be with cache.
Thanks for checking. I’ll flush the sitemap cache, exclude the sitemap from caching, clear everything, and resubmit the main sitemap. I’ll update you after testing.
We are sorted – thanks so much for your help.
Hello,
We are glad that the issue has been sorted out.
Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.
We are here to help.
Thank you.
