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Noindex page in sitemap

This page is in your XML sitemap but tells Google not to index it. The two signals contradict each other.

Why it matters

The sitemap says: please index this. Noindex says: do not. Google wastes crawl time on it and Search Console reports it as an error.

How Snaglist checks it

Snaglist reads the sitemap and the robots instructions of every page. Pages that are in the sitemap and carry noindex are listed.

Common causes

  • A page set to noindex while the sitemap plugin still includes it
  • Thank-you or confirmation pages
  • Pages that were hidden temporarily

How to fix it

  1. Decide whether the page should be found.
  2. If it should, remove the noindex.
  3. If not, exclude it from the sitemap.

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