Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the X-Robots-Tag "noindex" for your sitemap URL due to Rank Math SEO. Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention.
To resolve this problem, you can follow these steps:
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Check Your Robots.txt File: Ensure that your robots.txt file does not contain any rules that might be blocking the sitemap. You can edit your robots.txt file from the WordPress dashboard by navigating to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Edit robots.txt. Make sure there are no Disallow rules that would prevent indexing.
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Review Page Settings: Check if any of your pages or posts are set to "noindex". You can do this by editing the individual pages in the Rank Math Metabox and ensuring that the Robots meta tag is set to "index".
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Clear Cache: If you are using any caching plugins, clear the cache after making changes to ensure that the latest settings are applied.
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Check for Custom Canonicals: If you have set custom canonical URLs for your posts, they may not appear in the sitemap. Consider removing custom canonicals if you want all posts to be included in the sitemap.
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Disable Caching for Sitemap: If you are using caching plugins, you might want to disable caching specifically for the sitemap by adding the following filter in your theme’s rank-math.php file:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
If these steps do not resolve the issue, please reply to this ticket with your site URL so we can assist you further. A human agent from our support team will take over and provide more specific guidance.
Thank you for your patience, and we hope to help you resolve this issue soon!
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dear I check manually there is no disallow rule for indexing in Robots.txt File.. and i have no page and post set to noindexed . i clear cache from every where … this error is only occur in sitemap when active rank math seo
Hello,
Please note that sitemaps are by default set to Noindex as they are meant to be crawled and not to be displayed on search results pages.
You should only submit your sitemap to the sitemap section of your GSC account, and if Google can fetch the sitemap, you don’t have to worry.
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.
That great but dear can you tell me why sitemap not up to date I maximum time resubmit clear my cache from every where but still facing this error plus when i check my posts and pages in GSC they show ” No referring sitemaps detected ” and my only home page indexed “www.sadafawan.com”
Hello,
In this case, you should check your Google Search Console > Indexing > Pages section to determine any issues reported on your URLs that may have prevented your site from being indexed:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en
To better understand the status reported, you may refer to our guide here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-inspection-api-integration/#not-indexed
Looking forward to helping you.
I already check my pages there is no any other error only error i m facing is sitemap error …
check these images
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14JtuwkH_NIZftlJ8-tWqh0zBLrZDrc_f?usp=sharing
Hello,
Please note that the “Crawled – currently not indexed” status means Google has crawled your page but has not indexed it yet. Finding a certain number of URLs with this status is entirely normal because Google does not index all the URLs we submit.
This isn’t an error, but there are some reasons for excluding the pages from its index.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/crawled-currently-not-indexed/
Also, sitemaps are only one of the methods Google uses to discover your URLs. If you’re getting no referring sitemaps status on your URLs, that means that Google didn’t use your sitemap to discover your URLs:
https://rankmath.com/kb/no-referring-sitemaps-detected/
Looking forward to helping you.
