Hello,
I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with your sitemap. If your sitemap contains pages that are not present on your site, you can edit or recreate your sitemap using Rank Math SEO. Here are some steps you can take:
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Edit Sitemap in Rank Math SEO:
- Log in to your WordPress dashboard.
- Go to "Rank Math > Sitemap Settings."
- In the Sitemap settings, you can exclude specific pages or posts from the sitemap by unchecking them.
- Save your changes.
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Recreate Sitemap in Rank Math SEO:
- If editing the sitemap doesn’t resolve the issue, you can regenerate the sitemap.
- Go to "Rank Math > Status & Tools > Tools > Start Over."
- Click on the "Start Over" button to regenerate the sitemap.
If these steps don’t resolve the issue, please provide more details or reply to this ticket for further assistance. We’re here to help!
Thank you for reaching out with your concern.
Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
I am not able to find the start over button for sitemap. Can you send me the screenshot of that button?
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Please ignore the reply from the RankBot. You can share some affected URLs that are appearing on your sitemap so that we can the issue further for you.
Meanwhile, please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you:
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/
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hi, Thank you for quick response. The video screencast isn’t working at my end.
I wanted to regenerate sitemap because someone has pushed spam pages into my sitemap that are now indexed on google I just wanted to show the pages and posts present at the site.
Hello,
We’ve checked your website and it looks like it is affected by the famous Japanese keyword hack, and you should take immediate action to fix it.
Please check the URL below and follow the troubleshooting steps to take immediate action:
https://web.dev/fixing-the-japanese-keyword-hack/
Once you are able to remove this malware from your website, please clear the sitemap cache by following this screencast: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hi,
Thank you for letting me know that my site was hacked. I have taken all the precautionary measures to remove the malware. However, my sitemap is still showing those unwanted links. Even after clearing the sitemap cache, the links did not disappear.
Can you please help me regenerate the sitemap completely?
Looking forward to your assistance.
Thank you.
Hello,
Your sitemap is still not generated by Rank Math.
Please check your website files for any sitemap.xml file as Rank Math’s sitemaps are generated virtually.
Meaning, that there shouldn’t be any existing XML sitemap files in your website directory.
You may also get in touch with your web host for assistance checking your website files.
Looking forward to helping 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.
