Sitemap.xml

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    I noticed that when I do a site:domain.com, sitemap.xml shows up within Google's listings.

    Should I add something to my robots.txt to prevent the sitemap from showing up in Google?
     
    sarahturned, Sep 25, 2009 IP
  2. jagged

    jagged Peon

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    That's strange. Do you have a link to your site that points to the sitemap.xml? If so remove it. Submitting you xml in the webmaster tools should make it show up in the search results.
     
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    In your robots.txt you should add the sitemap link so Googlebots will read it as a sitemap instead of a web page.

     
    Brandon_R, Sep 25, 2009 IP
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    brian65 Active Member

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    It shouldn't be a problem that the sitemap shows in the results when you do a site: search. Hide specific pages that you don't want to turn up in searches, e.g. any backend admin pages, but don't worry about the sitemap itself.
     
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    nothing wrong with it
     
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    Normally google don't index sitemap but you can prevent this from happening using robots.txt file.
     
    aamigallery, Sep 30, 2009 IP