Reasons Why Your URL Isn't Included in the Sitemap - Rank Math SEO

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hi I'm Kate in this tutorial we will go over some reasons why a page isn't included in the sit map that was created with rankmath and how to fix that you can use the timestamps in the description to jump to the most likely option the first thing you need is to check if that poster page is set as no index open it in your editor of choice and access rank maths Meta Box go to the advanced Tab and look for the no index check boox if it is selected you need to click on the index option right next to it make sure to update the page or post so the setting is is updated another reason for the URL not being included in the S map is if the canonical tag was edited you can also check that in the advanced tab of rank maths made box while editing your post or page if the URL belongs to a post or custom post type it might be actively excluded from the sitemap open rank math sit map settings and look for that posts ID an ID is a number assigned to each poster page and you'll find it in the URL when you open it in the editor it's the number right after post equals the same thing could happen to an archive page for a taxonomy such as a tag you can find a taxonomy's ID if you open it to edit it will be the number right after ID equals another possibility is if the archive for that tag category or custom taxonomy is empty archive pages that are empty which means they don't have any posts attached are excluded by default as they hold thin content to include these pages in your s map navigate to rank math sitemap settings and enable include empty terms option in your category free tag or custom taxonomies archive settings although you should reconsider including empty pages in The sit map if the URL that has been excluded from your sitemap is an author page be sure to check out the author sitemap settings in addition to excluding users from the sitemap based on the user IDs they have an option to exclude users based on their user rules if you can't find the author's tab in the sitemap settings you need to check if the author archives are enabled and indexed go to rank maths titles in made a section and open the author's tab first enable the author archives option then activate the author's robot MAA setting and select the index check box another reason for your url not being included in the sit map is that your sit map is being cached we have an article in our knowledge base with several ways to exclude the sit maps from caching depending on the caching plugin you're using the link for it is in the description if this tutorial helped you give it a like if you have any questions click on the link in the description to open a free support ticket you can find more tutorials in our knowledge base at rankmath