Unable to index sitemap url

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  • Resolved Google Analytics

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

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    Hello Team,

    My name is Diwakar, and I work for the client https://hairtransplantation.com.au/ (their business URL). I am unable to fetch the sitemap URL in Search Console, and it keeps throwing an error [Page cannot be indexed: Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag] with ‘noindex’ detected in the ‘X-Robots-Tag’ HTTP header. I have tried my best to check the settings and haven’t seen any changes in the settings. I have exhausted all the resources mentioned on your website, and the last step I tried was to disable the plugin. Everything went successfully after disabling the plugin.

    Can you advise me on what I need to do to get this working? I don’t want to keep the plugin disabled permanently. In any case, my sitemap URL is https://hairtransplantation.com.au/sitemap_index.xml.

    Thank you.
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    If you exactly point the settings that needs to be changed with a screenshot. That would be a great help.

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  • RankBot

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Hello,

    I’m sorry to hear about the issue you’re facing with your sitemap URL not being indexed in Search Console due to the ‘noindex’ tag error. To resolve this, please follow these steps:

    1. Check Whether URLs Have Been Marked as ‘Noindex’:

      • Open the page source of the URL that has the issue.
      • Check if the page’s header includes the “noindex” robots meta tag.

      Noindex present in page's source code

    2. Page URL Set to NoIndex Correctly:

      • If your page URL is set to noindex correctly, but you’re still facing the error, check if Google can access your website’s sitemap.
      • Use this tool to check if your sitemap is accessible or throwing an error.

      Check if sitemap is accessible with the httpstatus tool

    3. Check if Sitemap is Cached:

    If after following these steps you still face issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further.

    Thank you for reaching out!

    Sources:
    Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
    How to Fix Submitted URL Marked ‘NoIndex’ Error » Rank Math
    Indexed, Not Submitted in Sitemap – Google Search Console » Rank Math

    Great

    1 month, 2 weeks ago

    Hello,

    We appreciate you reaching out to Rank Math support.

    We understand your concern about the sitemap being set as ‘noindex’, but we assure you that this is how it should be. The reason is that we don’t want Google to index the sitemap itself, we only want them to index the pages and posts that are listed on the sitemap. The sitemap is just a way to tell Google what pages and posts you have on your website, not a page that you want to show up in search results. This is true for any sitemap, even ours.

    The important thing is that your pages and posts are set to ‘index’, which means that they are eligible to appear in Google search results. We have checked your posts and we can see that your posts are correctly set to index. Your sitemap is also loading and working correctly.

    To make sure that Google knows about your sitemap and can crawl your pages and posts, you need to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console. This is a simple process that you can follow by using our tutorial: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitemap-to-google/

    We hope this clarifies your doubts. Please let us know if you have any other questions or concerns. We’re always happy to help.

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