Hi Umar,
Thanks for getting in touch with us.
It sounds like you are serving a cached version of your sitemap to Google and your visitors.
You must add all the sitemap file locations to the exclusion list in your Cache plugin so that the sitemaps are never cached. These are the files you must add to the exclusion list:
sitemap_index.xml
post-sitemap.xml
page-sitemap.xml
category-sitemap.xml
product-sitemap.xml
This is required since Sitemaps are already cached internally by Rank Math and we flush them everytime you post something new and with our cache – you won’t see the issue you are seeing in Google.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
You only have to add the sitemap_index.xml file to the Google Search Console, not any other file since they will be found using the sitemap_index.xml file.
Looking forward to help you.
Hi Alberto,
Thanks for your assistance.
Please forgive me for been ignorant. I am a newbie and am not sure of what am doing.
Are you saying that the only link I need to add to Google Search Console is the one with
sitemap_index.xml? What about the one with page-sitemap.xml?
Thank you for your understanding.
Umar
Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.
Yes. The page and posts sitemaps are usually include in yoursite/sitemap_index.xml so you need not to be worried.
Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.
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.
