Seo

I have my homepage set up to display my posts in full. Problem is, google crawls and indexes the home page and then links to it. Eg: my.blog/page/2 As I make new posts, the relevant post moves further down the page list, and the link goes stale. How can I get Google to link to the article itself and not the homepage? Thanks!

Google search console says my pages aren't indexed because "there are pages with redirect." How do I fix it? Thank you.

I'd like to include the lastmod field in my sitemap – how should I go about adding this?

I checked mysitename.xyz/sitemap.xml is indeed an xml file. I gave that to GSC, but even after a few days, it says Status: Couldn't fetch. What could be the reason? Maybe the site is too small? or maybe it's got to do with the notice that I see when I open the sitemap in my browser: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

I would like my blot website to be one of the first hits when someone searches <my name>, or <my name my profession>, but i don't want the domain to be my_name.com or stuff like this. Any advice on how to make this more likely (besides putting my name on a lot of pages)? perhaps some config file or something