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Prevent Search engines from indexing sitemap file

‎04-19-2017 07:37 AM
‎04-19-2017 07:37 AM

Prevent Search engines from indexing sitemap file

Hello,

How do we prevent search engines from indexing our XML sitemap file?

Any ideias?

Thanks!

 

 

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‎04-20-2017 01:44 AM
‎04-20-2017 01:44 AM

Re: Prevent Search engines from indexing sitemap file

Hey @UNLda

You can use the following tag to achieve that:

 

X-Robots-Tag: noindex

 

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‎04-27-2017 02:05 AM
‎04-27-2017 02:05 AM

Re: Prevent Search engines from indexing sitemap file

Could we add  <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex"> on a XML file?

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‎04-29-2017 12:59 PM
‎04-29-2017 12:59 PM

Re: Prevent Search engines from indexing sitemap file

Hi

 

I think you can add in robots.txt

Disallow: /sitemap.xml

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6552060/should-sitemap-be-disallowed-in-robots-txt-and-robot-txt-...

 

Can you tell us why you want to prevent sitemap indexing ? Does it show up in search engine results ?

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