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gius83
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Little Update:
I tried to follow also this suggest https://yoast.com/help/exclude-sitemaps-from-cache/ but no joy.
If I create a new page or post it will appear in post/page sitemap, only post_tag still continue to not appear, so I think is not cache related.
If I add a new tag to a Post, this tag is listing in post_tag-sitemap, but, after this, if I add a new tag from Post > Tag > Add New, this tag will not listed in post_tag-sitemap.
If I edit an existing tag listed in post_tag-sitemap, the sitemap will be updated
If I add an existing post_tag (listed in a sitemap) to a post nothing change, BUT, when I remove that tag from the post, it disappear from post_tag-sitemap, and If I try to add again post tag pages advice me that tag already exist
Something looks as “broken”, but I don’t know how fix it, or how create manually a correct sitemap
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Hi,
If you go to Post-Tag-Add New without assigning it a post, it fails to appear in the sitemap.
Only tag pages that have posts assigned to it will appear here https://www.lasercutting.it/post_tag-sitemap.xml.
Can you confirm if you assign a post to the tag, that the tag page then appears on the sitemap https://www.lasercutting.it/post_tag-sitemap.xml?
Thread Starter
gius83
(@gius83)
Yes for your question:
Can you confirm if you assign a post to the tag, that the tag page then appears on the sitemap https://www.lasercutting.it/post_tag-sitemap.xml?
But until few days ago I was able to add a post_tag without assign it to a post and it will appear on the post_tag-sitemap: this for create a “virtual page” for existing tag… because we operate in different area of Italy.
For now I fixed by myself creating a manual xml (usually we don’t have to update frequently) but would be nice to understand what change..
@gius83
Can you let us know what version of Yoast you were using? We then dig into it a little more to see what changed.
Thread Starter
gius83
(@gius83)
Usually all is update:
Yoast version is 15.1.1
wordpress is 5.5.1.
Hi,
Thanks for letting us know that your WordPress and Yoast SEO plugin are updated to the latest version.
Were you able to create a new tag and it included it in the post tag sitemap in a previous version of Yoast SEO before 15.1.1? As far as we know, it was always the correct behavior that when you create a tag and it isn’t assigned to a post, it wouldn’t be included in the post tag sitemap.
Thread Starter
gius83
(@gius83)
Were you able to create a new tag and it included it in the post tag sitemap in a previous version of Yoast SEO before 15.1.1
Yes, I was. I don’t know what change, but now is changed. In these weeks I change theme of WordPress and a lot of stuffs (but nothing related to php etc, because I’m not e wizard about) but I don’t think are relates.
By the way all element in post_tag-sitemap.xml are not assigned in posts, but you can see… so this is proof that what I said is true.
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@gius83 Do you know what version of Yoast SEO you were using previous to 15.1.1 that allowed you to create a new tag that was unassigned to a post but was still included in the sitemap?
Thread Starter
gius83
(@gius83)
no, I’m sorry, but usually all plugins are update.
We are afraid to say that we are not aware of any recent older version of our plugin that was outputting the empty tags in the tag sitemap generated by Yoast SEO. Yoast SEO doesn’t output any empty tags in the tag sitemap at all as there’s no need to, nor it would add any values for search engines.
Unfortunately, we don’t have any workaround available that will allow you to output the empty taxonomies in the Yoast SEO generated XML sitemap.
Thread Starter
gius83
(@gius83)
I understund, but, the actual post_tag-sitemap is generated by tag not assigned to any post.
By the way a fixed my issue with manual xml map
Hi,
It would be detrimental to your SEO to have a tag archive page in your sitemap that doesn’t have any content. It would be considered as thin or low-quality content, so we wouldn’t recommend having it in the sitemap as well. Once you assign posts to a particular tag, it should show up in the tag sitemap accordingly.
We are going ahead and marking this issue as resolved due to inactivity. If you require any further assistance please create a new issue.
