Sitemap & noindex inconstancy?

[paul-bold]

Hey Moz Community!

On a the CMS in question the sitemap and robots file is locked down. Can't be edited or modified what so ever.

If I noindex a page in the But it is still on the xml sitemap... Will it get indexed?

Thoughts, comments and experience greatly appreciate and welcome.

[LesleyPaone]

It will get crawled, but it will not be indexed. Basically the crawler will get the page, see that and not index it. It could follow if you put noindex, follow. Or it cannot follow if you put noindex, nofollow.

[gazzerman1]

The site map is an indication to Google to crawl those pages, there are instances where people have meta tags with noindex, follow and would list them in their sitemaps so that Google will crawl all the links listed on the page but not index the page itself.

The meta tags or headers on your page will be the signal to Googlebot on how to handle that page regardless of your sitemap and whats on it.