Sitemaps

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  • Resolved Carole Avodagbe

    3 months ago

    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Hello, I was hacked by a Japanese virus.. It was fixed by Wordfence however there are still many Japanese pages, referenced on behalf of my site on Google. When I asked Wordfence how to do it, here is their answer:
    « I have had a look at your site in the search console and verified that there are many Japanese links present. If I live test any of these I get a 404 which means the site is free of any infection, but these dead links are not being cleared out of google search.

    It turns out that your sitemaps are generated by Rank Math SEO. You will need to ensure your sitemaps are up to date. i.e. no stale URLs and that Google is crawling your site correctly. There appears to be some stale sitemap URLs in robots.txt, which search engines use for information on how to find out about your site structure. While this may not effect site crawling it would be good to have the possible problem that it does fixed as well. Something I noticed that is a red flag is that Google Safe Browsing has not checked your site since November last year and this is why I would question if something is inhibiting Googles site crawling.

    Unfortunately SEO including sitemaps is beyond our scope of works so you may want to get a developer to organise your sitemaps correctly and submit a manual re-crawl request to Google if you are unable to do this yourself.« 

    Pouvez vous faire quelque chose à ce sujet ?

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  • RankBot

    3 months ago

    Hello, we apologize for the inconvenience you’ve experienced due to the Japanese virus affecting your site. It’s great to hear that Wordfence was able to resolve the issue.

    Regarding the stale sitemap URLs and the need to ensure that your sitemaps are up to date, we recommend checking your sitemap settings in Rank Math SEO. You can access and update your sitemap settings by navigating to WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings.

    Ensure that all the URLs in your sitemap are accurate and up to date. Additionally, you can submit a manual re-crawl request to Google through Google Search Console to prompt Google to crawl and index your updated sitemap.

    If you encounter any difficulties or have further questions, please feel free to reach out to our dedicated support team here. We are available 24/7, 365 days a year and will be happy to assist you further.

    Sources:
    Why Are My Translated Pages Not in the Sitemap? » Rank Math
    Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
    Discovered – Currently Not Indexed in Google Search Console » Rank Math
    Why Did My Website Disappear From Google Search? » Rank Math
    Why GSC Shows “No Referring Sitemaps Detected”

    Carole Avodagbe

    3 months ago

    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    Ok its possible to do this for me ?

    Rakibuzzaman Siam

    3 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting us and bringing your concern to our attention.

    You can share your sitemap URL with us so that we can check this further for you.

    However, please note that Rank Math only includes the URL to your sitemap when it is set to index and has a self-referencing canonical. It doesn’t include the 404 URLs to your sitemap.

    Looking forward to helping you.

    Thank you.

    Carole Avodagbe

    3 months ago

    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    ok le voici : https://www.zenglutenfree.fr/sitemap_index.xml n’hesitez pas à me dire ce que je dois faire je ne suis pas douée dans ce domaine merci beaucoup

    Reinelle

    2 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hello,

    Your sitemap is already working fine.

    However, as you have shared above, your robots.txt still mentions different sitemap URLs.

    Please copy and paste these rules on your WordPress dashboard > Rank Math > General Settings > Edit Robots.txt

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: https://www.zenglutenfree.fr/sitemap_index.xml

    Here’s a link you can follow as well:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-edit-robots-txt-with-rank-math/

    Hope that helps.

    Carole Avodagbe

    2 months, 4 weeks ago

    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    ok, I tried but it tells me that it is locked because The content is locked because a robots.txt file is present in the root folder.

    so I can’t change it

    Rakibuzzaman Siam

    2 months, 4 weeks ago

    Hello,

    This message states that you have a physical robots.txt file present in the root folder of your website and that’s why you’re not able to edit the file dynamically from Rank Math. In order to resolve the issue, please try to remove this file via FTP or cPanel File Manager.

    For more details, you can check this URL: https://rankmath.com/kb/cant-edit-robots-txt/#num-1-presence-of-a-physical-file

    Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

    Thank you.

    Carole Avodagbe

    2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Rank Math pro
    Content AI Starter

    j’ai enlevé le robot TXT du dossier racine mais je ne peux toujours pas modifier sur rankmath

    Ike

    2 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hello,

    If you’re unable to edit the robots.txt file via Rank Math, there are a few common reasons for this issue, as outlined in our knowledge base tutorial here.

    If there are permission issues on the web server, you may need to contact your web host for further assistance.

    Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

    RankBot

    1 month, 3 weeks 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.

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