Exclude Noindex, Followed pages from sitemap?

[Zachary_Russell]

Hello Everyone!

This is a question about my site, which is running on WordPress. Currently, I have category page to have the noindex, follow attributes, as they have little unique content. I do have them currently in my sitemap.xml file, however. Should I remove them from the sitemap since Google technically shouldn't index them?

Thanks for your help!

[DennisSeymour]

There's no need to have them in the sitemap. If you have them there then its not really a big deal but just try to remove it when you can. If you have a page sitemap, then you can add them in if you wanted to.

[Zachary_Russell]

It's easy to remove. I currently have the default setup in Yoast where I have (currently) a sitemap_index.xml file with a page_sitemap, post_sitemap, category_sitemap, and a portfolio_sitemap (my custom post type for portfolio items).

[DennisSeymour]

then that makes things easier then