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@irshad3284 We checked on the sitemap and no issues were detected when validated (see image here).

We would recommend to first try to resolve this by removing and resubmitting the sitemap. In order to make sure there are no cached sitemap data, we recommend the following:

1. Clear the cache from caching plugins, the server, a CDN like Cloudflare, or the browser? If you are not sure how to clear cache from a plugin, please contact the plugin author. If you’d like to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser, use this guide: How to clear my browser’s cache?

2. Delete your sitemap in Google. Doing so will not hurt the SEO of the site. This guide explains more (scroll to the bottom): https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183669?hl=en.

3. Submit the sitemap again. Be sure to submit only the sitemap_index.xml and nothing else. This guide explains more: Submit your sitemap to search engines.

4. Monitor the results to see if the issue is resolved. It can take some time before Google can report on the crawled URLs after you re-submit your sitemap, especially for large sites, as the Google Search Console reports are not real-time.

@digitalrenewal We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.

If the issue you are experiencing occurs with only the Yoast SEO plugin and theme active, it’s likely due to a conflict with the theme.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts.

Can you please inform us of the results, so we can help you figure out what the problem is?

@elena99999 We do not recommend setting your site’s homepage as a cornerstone page.

It might be tempting to think of your homepage as a cornerstone article, but that’s not really what your homepage does. Although it does have lots of links leading back to it, content-wise it doesn’t really do what a cornerstone should do.

A cornerstone article should target a specific topic, with lots of in-depth content talking about that topic. Your homepage will be much more general than this, so it doesn’t give you the same opportunity to rank for your target keywords. 

@agnessmore It is possible to modify the schema output of the Yoast SEO plugin programmatically in order to customize it to suit your purposes.

You can find our schema integration guidelines available here, and our schema API documentation available here.

@tnyligokhan When you change a page’s canonical URL it not being included in the sitemap is the expected behavior. This does not prevent the URL from being indexed; for that you would implement a noindex tag. However, when you change the canonical URL it points search engines to the canonical’s value instead of the page’s actual URL.

We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing an issue with the keyphrase density.

Often, we see problems occur in combination with another plugin or theme. The fastest way to rule out any conflict is to deactivate all non-Yoast plugins and switch to a standard theme like Twenty Twenty-Two.

Please test this on your development or staging site, if you have one. If not, we recommend using the Health Check & Troubleshooting plugin. This plugin has a troubleshooting mode, which does not affect normal visitors to your site.

If you’re unfamiliar with checking for conflicts, we’d like to point you to a step-by-step guide that will walk you through the process: How to check for plugin conflicts.

@smn123 We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue. Unfortunately, the images you tried to attach aren’t appearing. Are you able to share these images using an image sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/ or something similar?

@protesian Whereas the XML Sitemap should dynamically update after any modification to it, if the site or server is caching the sitemap this can cause it to not update right away. We also have additional information on this at the following link: https://yoast.com/help/sitemap-does-not-update/.

If you are not seeing the sitemap as updated, we would recommend checking your caching settings and to ensure that the sitemap is being excluded from the cache. If the sitemap is being cached by a plugin we have directions on how to add an exclusion for the sitemap files to your cache plugin at the following link: https://yoast.com/help/exclude-sitemaps-from-cache/

If you are still experiencing an issue with the sitemap not updating after checking your caching settings, you can also force a cache reset by temporarily disabling the sitemap feature, and then re-enabling it. We also have a guide on how to enable and disable XML Sitemaps here: https://yoast.com/help/xml-sitemaps-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/