Woo Products Marked Noindex

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

It is likely that there is a misconfiguration in your plugin settings. I can see that you have a static robots.txt file on your site root. Please login to your site via FTP and delete this file so that Rank Math can generate and manage the robots file for you.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

It is likely that the noindex option was already enabled before your edited and resaved your products. If you don’t have a lot of products, you will need to edit each product and then click on the index option on the advanced tab of on the Rank Math metabox.

If you have a lot if products, you can set all of them to index on the frontend by adding the following code to your theme’s functions.php file:

/**
 * Allows filtering of the robots meta data.
 *
 * @param array $robots The meta robots directives.
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
        if(is_product()){
           $robots['index'] = "index";
           $robots['follow'] = "follow";
        }
	return $robots;
});

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hi Shawn,

Seeing as your products are index, I see the changes you made worked.

I just entered the URL you gave me in Google and it shows an indexed version of your product.

For your sitemaps, if you used the newer DNS-based verification method to verify your site in Search Console, then the submitted sitemaps list will not be available in Rank Math. Sites that have been verified using that are not accessible through the Search Console sitemaps API. Until Google adds support for that, we cannot show the Sitemaps list within your WordPress dashoard.

If you did not use the DNS verification and the submitted sitemaps are still not showing up in Rank Math > Search Console > Sitemaps, then first of all please go to Rank Math > General Settings > Search Console and click on Deauthorize, save it, and then authorize again, and save the settings once again.

You can check if the sitemap is working correctly on your site or not by visiting the sitemap_index.xml URL in your browser. You should see something like this: https://rankmath.com/sitemap_index.xml Clicking on the individual sitemaps should work too.
What you see in the Sitemaps report of the Search Console should reflect that: when you navigate to the Sitemaps report, you should see only the sitemap_index.xml listed there, and when you click on it, you should see the list of individual sitemaps included in the sitemap index.

You don’t have to submit the sitemaps manually, Rank Math should take care of that for you. If for any reason Rank Math did not submit your sitemap index correctly, then you can correct it in the Search Console manually, by submitting only the sitemap index and removing all the other sitemaps submitted.

Hope that helps.