Sitemap issue

#443943
  • Resolved Marshall Sriboonrung

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello. According to Search Console, I’m having site indexing issues related to my sitemap.

    I created a sitemap in Rankmath. The sitemap URL is https://flight-arrow.com/?sitemap=1
    It is different than the standard sitemap URL format.
    example: https://www.flight-arrow.com/sitemap.xml

    Question #1:Is this a problem?
    Question #2: Should the sitemap portion of my robots.txt file have the sitemap URL generated by rankmath? Right now it has the standard format.

    Here is my robots.txt file:

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /wp-admin/
    Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

    Sitemap: https://www.flight-arrow.com/sitemap.xml

    As you can see, my sitemap format in the robots.txt file is different than my actual sitemap generated by Rankmath. Could this be a problem?

    Thank you so much!

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)
  • Anas

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.

    1. No, this is not a problem.

    It looks like the permalink structure on your website is set to plain which is why the URL is not changed in Sitemap settings.

    To change this, you need to set the permalink structure to Post name at WordPress settings > Permalinks

    Please note that changing the permalinks on a live, indexed, and established site may result in a serious loss of traffic.

    2. The robots.txt file should have the actual sitemap URL that is created with Rank Math.

    Hope that helps.

    Thank you.

    Marshall Sriboonrung

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Thank you

    I changed the permalink structure to post name and it changed the sitemap URL to:
    https://flight-arrow.com/sitemap_index.xml

    I was to understand that this format is the best practice.
    https://www.flight-arrow.com/sitemap.xml

    Does this matter? Can you tell me why it is different?

    Anas

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Rank Math business

    Hello,

    The sitemap generated by Rank Math is accessible at sitemap_index.xml.

    The sitemap URL does not matter, however, the sitemap.xml URL is already redirecting to the main sitemap URL.

    Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

    RankBot

    3 years, 5 months ago

    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.

Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total)

The ticket ‘Sitemap issue’ is closed to new replies.