Hello, I’m sorry to hear about the trouble you’re facing with indexing your pages after installing the Rank Math plugin on your WordPress website. It seems like there might be a few reasons why your pages are not being indexed.
Firstly, it’s important to ensure that there are no issues with the SEO settings that might be preventing indexing. You can check the global settings at WordPress Dashboard → Rank Math SEO → Titles & Meta → Posts/Pages/Products/CPTs to ensure that there is no noindex attribute present.
Additionally, you should also check if the Discourage Search engines… option is not enabled at WordPress Dashboard → Settings → Reading. This setting can prevent Google from indexing your site.
If you’ve made sure that these settings are correct, you might want to consider submitting a manual indexing request to Google. However, it’s important to note that relying solely on manual index submission for normal content is not ideal and might indicate underlying issues with the website.
If you’ve checked these settings and are still experiencing issues, please feel free to reach out to our support team directly from here, and we’re always here to help.
I hope this helps!
Sources:
Discovered – Currently Not Indexed in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Why Google Hasn’t Indexed Your Post, Page, and/or Website? » Rank Math
How to Fix “Crawled – Currently Not Indexed” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Hello,
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Please share the affected page URLs so we can verify them if they are already set to index.
Meanwhile, you should check your Google Search Console coverage section to determine any issues reported on your URLs that may have prevented your site from being indexed:
https://support.artlogic.net/hc/en-gb/articles/360016851260-Google-Search-Console-errors-and-coverage-issues
Looking forward to helping you.
Hey all, thanks for reaching out. I was able to request manual indexing from each individual URL one by one. It has worked and they have been indexed! Before I was trying to request indexing through sitemap, and it wasn’t working, Google would always deem them discoverable but not indexed. Thankfully our website isn’t too big, we only have a few service pages and well will start to build out some individual city pages. But for bigger websites (over 100 pages) I can imagine this would become cumbersome to do
Hello,
We’re happy this has been resolved now, thank you for letting us know.
Regarding Google not crawling URLs in your sitemap, please note that Google crawls URLs in its own time and according to your site’s crawl budget, but as you’ve found out, using the URL Inspection Tool to request indexing can speed up the process. Another way to speed up this process is to use our Instant Indexing addon, you can learn more here.
Thank you for choosing Rank Math
