Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
Please remove all your submitted sitemaps and resubmit your main sitemap only /sitemap_index.xml.
Once done, give Google some time to recrawl your URLs.
Moreover, please note that each time Google uses a sitemap to find a URL, the count of the Discovered URLs increases by one. Sitemaps is only one of the few methods Google uses to discover your URLs, so it is fine for your articles to be referred to by other URLs on your site.
Also, when the count of the Discovered URLs is zero or does not match your actual sitemap in your Google Search Console, it means Google didn’t use the sitemap to find the URLs.
Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/zero-discovered-urls-through-sitemap/
Looking forward to helping you.
Ok – let me follow the steps and get back you.
Thank you !
Hello,
Sure, let us know how this goes.
Meanwhile, if you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime so we can assist you further.
Looking forward to helping you.
Hi –
Still facing the same issue.
Descovered pages still at 0 after 4 days.
Please help me with this out.
Thanks !
Hello,
As we already mentioned the Discovered URLs 0 that you see in Google Search Console just means that the URLs in the sitemap were already found by Googlebot by other means, instead of via the sitemap. For example, Googlebot may have found the URLs from internal links or possibly from links on another site. It mostly happens when you have good internal linking or use the Instant Indexing plugin.
If your pages are getting indexed, you can ignore this.
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
