Sitemap Query

[moon-boots]

I've decided to write my own sitemap because frankly, the automated ones pull all kinds of out of I don't know where. So to get around that, manual it is. But I have some products appear in various categories, should I still list every product in each category in the sitemap, regardless of some being duplicates, or should I choose the most relevant category and list them there?

I do have a canonical URL extension which should resolve any duplicate content I have.

[Silviu]

If you have canonical you can put all the links, because in this way Google-Bot will crawl all the pages and see easier which have canonical and which is unique.

[moon-boots]

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[LoganRay]

Hi,

It's ideal if your XML sitemap is an accurate representation of URLs you want indexed, i.e. the canonical versions. If you're using Screaming Frog to manually build your sitemaps, you make sure the 'Include Canonicals' button is unchecked. Doing so will trigger Screaming Frog to automatically leave out any URLs that canonicalize towards another URL, thus solving your problem.