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@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?

We are unable to send/receive admin login information and messages privately here as this is a public forum. If the nature of your issue requires sending us a link privately, it would require you to have a Yoast SEO Premium subscription or willing to purchase one at https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/, you can have our premium support investigate the issue privately to see what’s going on here.

Thanks for your understanding!

@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.?

Thanks for your reply.

Can you please provide us with the author page you set to noindex but is still showing in the search results, so that we can check into this further?

@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.

@capeweather Thanks for your reply. We reviewed the source code of the search results from the /weather page and found that the robots meta tag is set to index.

As for changing the canonical URL, you can programmatically change the canonical URL value using the wpseo_canonical filter. You can view the developer documentation on this topic here, as well as some code example usage can be found?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 word count not working as expected.

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.

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.

@agnessmore Thanks for your post.

Regarding your issue, can you please confirm whether the affected pages are in fact news articles?

If so, the NewsArticle type is a type of Article, so this is the expected behavior.

@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?

@mohammad983 We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this error.

A JavaScript error like this typically occurs due to a JavaScript conflict. So?we’d like you to please perform a conflict check. This will help us narrow down the exact cause and determine what the next steps are while saving you time.

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.

@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/

Thanks for your recommendation. If you’d like to see this as a feature we’d recommend you submit a feature request to our developers.

We’re actively using the bug tracking on our GitHub repository so your best next step would be to create a new feature request for our developers at https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/issues/new. You can create a new issue to submit your feature request. You will need an account to create one.

@geniuxcode Thanks for your message. Regarding your questions:

Does changing the sitemap affect SEO? My old sitemap.xml contains more than 1k URLs, and I noticed that Yoast Sitemap URL’s are different.

No, this won’t affect SEO. The sitemap is meant to indicate to bots what URLs should be indexed, and to understand your site’s structure.

Is it sufficient to deactivate the old plugin and activate Yoast Sitemap, or are there additional steps required?

We’d also recommend to remove the old sitemap URL from Google Search Console and submitting the new one.

After activating Yoast sitemap, do I need to resubmit the new sitemap URL to Google Search Console?

Yes, we would recommend that.