MadeForImpact Posted January 14 Share Posted January 14 Hello, I have toggled the Squarespace controls to ensure blog categories and tags are not indexed. However now when I run the audit on AHREFs, it says "Noindex page in sitemap" and shows some of the categories and tags. I resubmitted my sitemap on Google search console. How do I ensure these no index pages are completely removed from the sitemap? Thanks Link to comment
TheSEOtog Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 On 1/14/2023 at 2:31 AM, MadeForImpact said: Hello, I have toggled the Squarespace controls to ensure blog categories and tags are not indexed. However now when I run the audit on AHREFs, it says "Noindex page in sitemap" and shows some of the categories and tags. I resubmitted my sitemap on Google search console. How do I ensure these no index pages are completely removed from the sitemap? Thanks Hi, Have you found it? Same question here. I can't seem to find how to noindex tags and categories in settings. Thanks Link to comment
creedon Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, TheSEOtog said: I can't seem to find how to noindex tags and categories in settings. Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as best , and see my profile. Thanks for your support! Link to comment
TheSEOtog Posted April 19 Share Posted April 19 (edited) @creedon Thank you. I've tried that yet they still show in the sitemap. Edited April 19 by TheSEOtog Link to comment
creedon Posted April 20 Share Posted April 20 2 hours ago, TheSEOtog said: I've tried that yet they still show in the sitemap. The setting doesn't remove the pages from the sitemap. It adds a request to the pages that search engine crawlers no longer index them. TheSEOtog 1 Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as best , and see my profile. Thanks for your support! Link to comment
TheSEOtog Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 @creedon What's the point in feeding them to google in the sitemap? It can potentially be a waste of sites crawl budget. Link to comment
creedon Posted April 26 Share Posted April 26 14 minutes ago, TheSEOtog said: What's the point in feeding them to google in the sitemap? It can potentially be a waste of sites crawl budget. I'm not an SEO expert and I can't comment on why SS does anything it does. In my view sitemap.xml although probably mainly used for search engines are not limited to that specific application. I can see that it may be possible that a page that requests not to be indexed, i.e. don't present the page itself in search results, may still contain links to other pages that should be in search results. If the page is not there then it can't get crawled. Other uses of sitemap.xml may benefit from knowing the structure of a site as long as they use the guideline to respect the noindex option, again don't present them in some kind of search result. One idea of the noindex is to not present links as main entry points into a site that may dilute those main entry points. So in the case of a blog you may want folks to hit /blog but not /blog/category/dilution. Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as best , and see my profile. Thanks for your support! Link to comment
creedon Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 9 hours ago, emeliawest said: If you have pages on your website, such as blog categories and tags, that you do not want to appear in search engine results, you can use the "noindex" tag to exclude them from being indexed by search engines. There is no need to add tags for this purpose as SS already provides a way to do this. Quote If the page is included in your website's sitemap, you should also remove it from the sitemap. You can do this by editing your website's sitemap XML file and removing the URL for the page. SS provides no method to edit the sitemap.xml file. Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as best , and see my profile. Thanks for your support! Link to comment
TheSEOtog Posted May 11 Share Posted May 11 An average SS user would have no clue how to edit a sitemap.xml file. A round of applause to the SS seo team for this amazing user friendly seo feature. Link to comment
ChristineDarby Posted May 17 Share Posted May 17 @TheSEOtog If a sitemap didn't automatically update, you can ask SS support to kick it off. You shouldn't see those URLs after it updates. TheSEOtog 1 ★ Official Squarespace Specialist since 2014 ★ SEO Consulting and Training ★ Link to comment
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