sitemap

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us.

Sorry to disappoint you but the URL of the sitemaps cannot be changed. With that being said, as sitemaps are mostly used by search engine bots to crawl through your website, bots can easily find your sitemap as the link to the sitemap is added in the Google Search Console account and your robots.txt file.

The URL structure used by Rank Math for sitemaps is a very common one and is also used by other SEO plugins like Yoast.

I visited your website and found that your-domain.com/sitemap.xml is already redirecting to your-domain.com/sitemap_index.xml. So if in case a user or bot tries to find the sitemap on the URL sitemap.xml, they would be able to find your sitemap.

Please have a look at this screencast for a quick reference:
https://i.rankmath.com/hROQSc

If this auto-redirect is not happening in a website, then a simple redirect can be created for the above redirection. Here’s a screenshot for the redirect that can be created: https://i.rankmath.com/9jJPw5

Also, I have multiple categories on this website. Why are they not showing up on the sitemap?

Could you confirm if you have enabled the Category Sitemaps from your WordPress admin area > Rank Math > Sitemap Settings > Taxonomies: > Categories?

If yes, then please follow these steps to fix the issue:
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 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/

3. Clear your website & browser’s cache.

Please let us know how that goes.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

In order to see the “Links Per Sitemap“, First you must turn on the advanced mode.

Navigate to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Dashboard. In the top-right corner click on Advanced Mode as shown below:

Then try to flush the sitemap cache. and do let us know how that goes.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins 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,

Please kindly check if noindex in checked under WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Global Meta. Suppose it’s already set to index. In that case, you have to set them to index individually upon editing the page > Rank Math SEO Meta box > Advanced Tab because bulk editing is currently not available in the Free version of the plugin.

Learn more about bulk feature here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/bulk-editing-in-rank-math/

If you have any other questions or require any assistance don’t hesitate to get in touch. Thank you.