Include specific tags in sitemap

  • Resolved newbiedev

    (@newbiedev)


    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi

    I’ve disabled indexing of Tag pages by default.
    But I want a few of the tag pages to be indexed, and updated the setting from relevant Tag editor -> Yoast -> Advanced setting.

    While it is now open to indexing, these specific tags are still not showing up in XML sitemap.

    Any idea how can some specific tags be included in the sitemap?

    Thanks
    K

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.

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  • Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Can you please share the relevant tags page URL here with us so that we can take a look at them on our end?

    Thread Starter newbiedev

    (@newbiedev)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Here are the two tag urls that I’ve opened for indexing, but still not showing in sitemap
    [ short links expanded into link field ]

    All other Tags on my website are no-index (set from yoast settings)

    • This reply was modified 2 years, 9 months ago by Jan Dembowski.
    Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    We looked at the relevant tags pages and those look like custom post types taxonomy “topic” rather than the WordPress posts tag. We also looked at the sitemap index on your site and couldn’t find the relevant sitemap at all. So, can you please confirm whether you have all the settings correct on the relevant “topic” custom post type taxonomy?

    In addition, we see the XML sitemap generated by Yoast SEO is being cached by the 3rd party W3 Total Cache plugin. We recommend you please follow the guide here to exclude the XML sitemap from being cached.

    Once you exclude the sitemap from the W3 Total Cache plugin, please flush the cache to see whether this resolves the issue for you.

    Thread Starter newbiedev

    (@newbiedev)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi

    Thanks for your reply.
    I’ve excluded the sitemap from W3total cache plugin as mentioned in the link you shared.

    About the “topic” appearing in the URL: It is not a custom post taxonomy but rather a setting of “Tag base” in WordPress. This I’ve set from the “Tag base” setting in wordpress (Settings -> Permalinks -> Optional) Screenshot: https://ibb.co/zZrX991

    Could you have a look again and let me know how can I resolve the issue I’m facing.

    Thanks
    K

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by newbiedev.
    Plugin Support Michael Tiña

    (@mikes41720)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    We understand that you’ve set the tags to ‘noindex’ so they don’t show up in the search results and the tag sitemap has been removed from the sitemap index. You then set some individual tags to ‘index’ but they aren’t showing up in the sitemap. Is this correct?

    If so, we previously opened a GitHub issue for that concern, but it was closed since it wouldn’t be considered to be worked on. You can learn more about it here.

    You could consider the workaround of setting your tags to ‘index’ and then just noindexing the tags that you don’t want to be in the sitemap.

    Thread Starter newbiedev

    (@newbiedev)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Sure let me see if that workaround is feasible for me.

    Thank you for your support. Really appreciate it.

    Priscilla Chapman

    (@priscillamc)

    5 years, 8 months ago

    Hi @newbiedev,

    We’ll leave this topic open until next week for you. If you have any other information or questions, let us know.

    devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    5 years, 7 months ago

    We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.

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