Hello,
Can you please stop bumping your ticket? That is adding up to the delays.
The entire team replies to the tickets from the bottom and when you bump a ticket by replying to it, it gets pushed to the top of the queue.
1. If I’m not mistaken, then your Sitemap issue with GSC seemed resolved as Google is not showing any error when the Sitemaps are submitted.
Please stay advised that submitting the URLs to Google does not guarantee indexing.
It is completely normal for a newly published post/page/website to take time before it gets crawled or indexed by Google. It depends on a lot of factors. Your posting frequency + the domain authority are just two of the many factors Google considers when indexing some new URL. Google assigns a crawl budget to your website depending on these factors (especiall these two) and that has a direct effect on how soon or how late your content can get indexed.
You can also check for noindex tag here to rule out that your page isn’t getting indexed due to a mistake in plugin settings:
https://smallseotools.com/meta-tags-analyzer/
If noindex is not present, then it is just a waiting game before Google decides to include the URL in the index. No SEO plugin can force Google to index something they don’t want to.
With that said, we have found that barring any issues like copied/DMCA/low quality content issues – Google usually indexes posts within a week or two. So, we request you to kindly wait.
Google even says that on their official website:
https://i.rankmath.com/QB4Dhl
The above screenshot was taken from this page:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7552505#missing-jobs
So, you have to be a bit patient and allow it some time. If your website isn’t indexed even after a week, you can place a manual indexing request here:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9012289
Finally, it all boils down to the quality of the content and if your content improves Google’s overall search index.
Please check this article where one of the Google employees mentioned:
“If your site relies on manual index submission for normal content, you need to significantly improve your site. Search console does not fix your site, you need to do that yourself.” – JohnMu
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-manually-index-site-quality-28942.html
With that said, here’s a good article on how to ensure that your website gets indexed regularly:
https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-index/
2. The 404 monitor simply monitors the errors, it can not possibly know the source of the 404s. You would need to figure that yourself.
The 404 pages could be incorrect links on your website, someone’s else website linking to you, or someone trying to hack into your website.
We would recommend monitoring them closely and ensuring that your website is properly secured and backed up daily.
3. We would recommend using the latest version of the plugin.
4. Finally, the wp-sitemap.xml file is not generated by the Rank Math plugin, and you do not need to submit all the Sitemaps.
Submitting the main Sitemap file should suffice. The file’s link will look like this:
https://website.com/sitemap_index.xml
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Thank you.
