Sitemap Indexation

[welcomecure]

When we use HTML sitemap. Many a times i have seen that the sitemap itself gets mapped to keywords which it shouldn't have got to. So should we keep the HTML sitemap as No-Index, Follow or does anyone has a better solution that the sitemap doesn't show-up for other keyword terms that actually isn't representing this page.

[GPainter]

did you consider using a .xml file?  Noindex would also fix that.

[welcomecure]

XML file already submitted. The problem is with the HTML one.

[GPainter]

if you have a /sitemap.xml file you shouldn't need an html one unless you find users are using it and finding it helpful.