XML Sitemap Question!

[yaelslater]

Hi All,

I know that the sitemaps.xml URL must be findable but what about the sitemaps/pageinstructions.xml URL?

Can we safely noindex the sitemaps/pageinstructions.xml URL?

Thanks!

Yael

[JohnSammon]

Hey Yael,

You should be able to. If it's being indexed, you can request removal via Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console. You can also update your robots.txt file to disallow the page "http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html"

I hope that helps!

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hey

Yes, you can safely do that. In the end, you mostly want to make sure that the right pages are being Crawled > Indexed. If that requires certain (XML) files to be no-indexed, then that's the way you want to go.

Martijn.

[jasongmcmahon]

Yes, you can noindex practically anything using the robots.txt file