Sitemap Index Issue

#824718
  • Resolved Amelia
    Rank Math free

    Hi, Google could not index my sitemap: https://sinoindustry.com/sitemap_index.xml The cause pointed out by Google Search Console is ‘noindex’ detected in ‘X-Robots-Tag’ http header. I’ve checked my wordpress and rankmath settings which are all right.

    I have also contacted my server. Here are their tests and suggestions:

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    From Server Siteground Technical Support:

    I have checked on the headers of the site, and currently, it appears that the X-Robots-Tag is not within:

    HTTP/2 200
    server: nginx
    date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 07:37:22 GMT
    content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    vary: Accept-Encoding
    link: <https://sinoindustry.com/wp-json/&gt;; rel=”https://api.w.org/&#8221;
    link: <https://sinoindustry.com/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/6&gt;; rel=”alternate”; type=”application/json”
    link: <https://sinoindustry.com/&gt;; rel=shortlink
    x-httpd-modphp: 1
    host-header: 8441280b0c35cbc1147f8ba998a563a7
    x-proxy-cache-info: DT:1
    x-cdn-c: static

    The X-Robots-Tag is an HTTP header used to control how search engines index and serve a webpage. It provides similar functionality to the robots meta tag but can be applied to non-HTML files such as PDFs, images, and other resources.

    I have also reviewed the .htaccess file of the application and found that this implementation is absent.

    The provided URL and the sitemap_index.xml are generated from the third-party SEO plugin used, so I recommend providing them with the headers log from the above, so they can investigate further:

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  • Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and bringing your concern to our attention.

    Please note that by default, sitemaps are set to Noindex as they are meant to be crawled and not to be displayed on search results pages and it is absolutely fine.

    You should only submit your sitemap to the sitemap section of your GSC account and shouldn’t use the URL inspection tool for the sitemap URLs.
    https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thank you.

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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