Sitemap and Ranking Issues

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support. We’re sorry to hear that you’re having some issues with our plugin, we’d love to help you resolve these issues – just let us know the problem, and we’ll do our best to help resolve them for you.

Regarding the issues you mentioned:

1. Your homepage is actually included in your sitemap, as you can see in the screenshot we attached.
   
   Your homepage is considered a page, so it is in the page-sitemap.xml file, which is part of your sitemap index. This is the standard way of creating sitemaps and it is the same on our own website: https://rankmath.com/page-sitemap.xml
2. We’re not sure what you mean by this, could you please explain more clearly what you are referring to? As far as we can tell, your website is set up correctly to redirect the non-trailing slash version to the trailing slash version, except on the homepage. This is the recommended practice and it ensures that Google only indexes one version of your website. We don’t think this has anything to do with your ranking drop.
3. We can’t say for sure why your ranking has dropped, but we can assure you that it is not because of Rank Math. Our plugin is designed to help you optimize your website for SEO, but it cannot guarantee or control how Google ranks your site. There are many factors that affect ranking, such as content quality, user experience, backlinks, competition, etc. Rank Math cannot influence these factors directly, but it can help you improve them by providing useful features and suggestions. To investigate this issue, please check your Google Search Console to see if there are any errors or warnings that might be affecting your ranking.

We hope this clarifies the situation and helps you resolve the issue. If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us again. We’re always here to assist you.

Thank you for choosing Rank Math!

Hello,

The login you shared is no longer working.

However, your robots.txt contains a disallow rule that can affect your website crawlability.

In this case, you can follow our guide here to remove the sitemap URL from your robots.txt:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

Our default and recommended rules are mentioned in this section.

Moreover, if there are any issues reported on your URLs that prevent them from being indexed, you can see them in the coverage section report of your GSC:
https://support.artlogic.net/hc/en-gb/articles/360016851260-Google-Search-Console-errors-and-coverage-issues

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Apologies for the delay as this ticket seems to have been stuck in our drafts section for some reason.

The logins for your website are already working. Also, your robots.txt already contains the default/recommended rules so search engines can index your website freely.

In this case, you may monitor your website performance in your Google Search Console after giving Google some time to recrawl your site.

You can also monitor the coverage section as advised above to see if there are any issues reported on your URLS.

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience.

Please check for URLs in your Google Search Console and look for any coverage issues that may tell us why your website is not ranking well on the SERP. You may refer to this guide: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

We really look forward to hearing back from you. Thank you.

Hello,

We apologize for that.

We already checked your website before and we see no issues with the configuration that will cause any ranking issues. The only thing to focus on now is the quality of the content and how it helps the search intent.

If you see major ranking issues on your website even though the on-page SEO is established, you should conduct an audit following this guide: https://rankmath.com/blog/seo-audit/

Your homepage is already showing the correct Canonical URL as you can see in this screenshot here:

The canonical tag is only shown once so Semrush must have crawled a cached version of your homepage. Can you please share a screenshot from Google saying that our plugin is causing the canonical issue?

Since your website is already configured correctly, it goes down to the issues in Google Search Console coverage reports so we can determine them in detail and make proper adjustments.

Looking forward to helping you with this one.