Sitemap contains Meta NOINDEX pages - Good or bad?

[bjs2010]

Hi,

Our sitemap is created by our e-commerce software - Magento -

We are probably going to make a lot of products Meta No Index for the moment, until all the content has been corrected on them - but by default, as they are enabled, they will appear in Sitemap.

So, the question is:

"Should pages that are Meta NOINDEX be listed in a sitemap"? Does it matter?

thanks!

[Chris.Menke]

What's wrong with the content?

The meta noindex will prevent the pages from showing up in search results and from impacting search results if they've got duplicate content--regardless of whether they're in the sitemap or not.  If you've got a lot of spammy outbound links, think about nofollowing, too.

[AlanMosley]

Bad, the sitmap is telling SE's to index, the noindex is telling them not to.

Bing for one will ignore your sitemap if it is more then 2% incorrect.

As chis said, why noindex, this means that all links pointing to the no-indexed pages are wasting their link juice