What Shouldn’t Be Included in a Sitemap?

All of the pages listed in your sitemap should show Google that your site is high-quality and well-maintained.

That means you should leave out some pages. Such as:

  • Pages with 3xx, 4xx, or 5xx status codes
  • Orphaned pages
  • Duplicate pages
  • Pages that aren’t the canonical version
  • Pages with a “noindex” robots tag
  • Pages blocked in your robots.txt file 

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