Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math, and sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Please note that crawling and indexing of the website depends on the authority and crawl budget of the website.
However, make sure that the Sitemap filesare excluded 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/
Once done, clear the website cache and resubmit the sitemap_index.xml in the Search Console
Hope that helps.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need our assistance with anything else.
There is no cache plugin active; neigter is there any server side caching active.
The site is fairly new.
Do I then just have to be patient? And in the meanwhile creating more authority and improving the site?
Best, Chris
Hello,
Yes, you should wait and let Google crawl your website and build authority for your website.
Hope that helps.
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.