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  • A few things to isolate before treating this as a general sitemap failure:

    1. Open the child sitemap directly:
      post_tag-sitemap.xml
    2. Check whether the tag taxonomy actually has indexable terms:
    • tags exist
    • tags are attached to published posts
    • the tag archive is not set to noindex
    • the individual tag terms are not set to noindex

    If there are no indexable tag terms, the post_tag sitemap can fail or appear missing even when “Include in Sitemap” is enabled.

    1. Flush the sitemap/rewrite state:
    • Rank Math > Sitemap Settings: turn sitemap off, save, turn it on, save
    • Settings > Permalinks: save once without changes
    • clear page cache/CDN/object cache
    1. Exclude sitemap URLs from caching if you use a cache/CDN layer:
      sitemap_index.xml
      *-sitemap.xml

    If only the post_tag sitemap fails while other child sitemaps work, I would focus on taxonomy/indexability/caching first rather than the main sitemap index.

    Thread Starter dswebnew

    (@dswebnew)

    fixed, defaul settings is noindex

    Thank You!

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