Hi i fixed it. But do can you check numbers of post on sitemap but it does not shows on wordpress dashboard.
I mean i have written only 8 post and i have only 6 pages. Then why sitemap contains more than 200 spam links. And in google search console 14k links indexed. And total post page on my wordpress is only 14. Please help me to find these links and delete them. And also to remove all indexed link from search console
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Your page sitemap shows 6 URLs only as you have described. Your post sitemap however is generating too many URLs.
Can you please follow these steps?
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/
If the above steps don’t work, e might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress login in the designated Sensitive Data section.
Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.
It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/
You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
I tired but doesn’t work. And click on permalink scroll down. Please have a look there why ht access is showing there. This type of ht access doesn’t appear in any of my website. If you can fix that I will be glad.
https://affinitydigit.com/robots.txt Check this there are many sitemap and after sitemap1 it contains many URLs
I’m waiting for your reply whole day😔
Hi, I’m still waiting for your response 😔 please help
Hello,
Thank you for your patience.
We prioritize older tickets and whenever you post a reply here, your ticket is getting bumped to the top.
However, I’ve checked your site on Google, and it seems that it’s experiencing a Japanese keyword hack. Please refer to the screenshot attached in the sensitive data section.
To clean/fix this, kindly get in touch with your web host for assistance. You can also refer to this guide as Google has already given some guides to address this kind of issue:
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/security/hacked/fixing_the_japanese_keyword_hack?hl=en
Once done, your sitemap should be fixed as well.
Let us know how this goes.
Thank you.
Actually website is self managed. it is hosted on vultr.
Have you checked robots.txt. there are so many sitemaps. And i’m afraid if i did anything i will lose my wordpress. I request you to please delete all sitemaps containing hacks.
Hello,
I have updated the robots.txt file on your website with the default rules.
The sitemap is also working fine now.
I have also checked the root directory of your website, there are no sitemap files present in the root directory.
Please check and let us know if you have any questions.
We are here to assist you.
Hi still there are links in my sitemap. I have only 8 post and 6 pages in my wordpress. Check the sitemap there are 2 link on post containing 239 and 38 urls.
I have added the screenshot in sensitive data
Hello,
Our sitemap loads on the following URL: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap_index.xml
The links you are seeing is on the URL: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
That other sitemap is likely generated by another source on your website such as another plugin or from a physical file on your website.
If you are not aware of that sitemap we recommend doing a complete website scan and looking for potential malware on your website.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
