Sitemap cannot be submit to Google Search console no indexx-robots-tag: noindex

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap and the noindex X-Robots-Tag. It seems like there might be a conflict or misconfiguration that is preventing Google from accessing your sitemap.

Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot and potentially resolve this issue:

1. Check Your Robots.txt File: Ensure that your robots.txt file does not have any rules blocking access to your sitemap. You can check this by going to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → robots.txt.

2. Review Rank Math Settings: Make sure that the settings in Rank Math are configured correctly. You can check the Rank Math Metabox for the specific pages or posts to ensure they are set to index.

   • Open the post/page in the WordPress Editor and check the Rank Math Metabox. Ensure that the Robots Meta is set to Index.

3. Clear Cache: If you are using any caching plugins, clear the cache to ensure that the latest changes are reflected.

4. Custom Code: The code snippet you provided should work to modify the X-Robots-Tag header. Ensure that it is placed correctly in your theme’s functions.php file or in a site-specific plugin. Here’s the code again for reference:

   add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/http_headers', function( $headers ) {
      $headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'all';
      return $headers;
   });

5. Check for Plugin Conflicts: Sometimes, other plugins may conflict with Rank Math. You can use the Health Check plugin to identify any potential conflicts.

6. Resubmit Your Sitemap: After making these changes, remove your sitemap from Google Search Console and resubmit it as described in this tutorial.

If these steps do not resolve the issue, please reply to this ticket with your website URL so that a human agent from our support team can assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we’re here to help!

Sources:
How to Fix Submitted URL Marked ‘NoIndex’ Error » Rank Math

Hello,

Please follow the steps below:

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. Apply the following filter code to your site.

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

Here’s how you can add filter to your WordPress site:https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

4. Remove all your sitemaps from your Google Search Console and re-submit only the index sitemap (https://website.com/sitemap_index.xml)

5. If the issue persists, please try removing all your sitemaps from your GSC account again and try submitting the following: https://website.com/?sitemap=1.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We ran several tests on your sitemap and subsitemaps and did not detect any issues:

Please note that when you submit your sitemap on GSC, it takes some time to crawl and process it fully.

Give Google some time to recrawl your sitemaps. You can monitor the “Last read/crawl date” column in the sitemap index as it will update the date when Google crawls your sitemap.

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you

Hello,

You’re most welcome. Yes, waiting and monitoring how Google processes it should be your next move. Since the URLs are accessible and you’ve submitted them for indexing, things should gradually improve.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you.