Which version of the homepage on the sitemap?

[EveronSEO]

We have been wondering this for a while now.

When we build our sitemaps, or when the yoast plugin does in WP we are often left with www.yourdomain.co.uk/ and www.yourdomain.co.uk/index.html in our sitemaps.

Surely it isn't healthy to have both in the sitemap. Which one should we take out?

Thanks

[LesleyPaone]

Put the version that your site directs to. If both can be accessed without a redirection, I would redirect the index.html to not show the file and extension.

[AlanMosley]

No its not. one should redirect to the other.

but I think your problem is that you have links within your site that point to both, this is why the auto sitemap generation generates both.

find the internal links and fix them.