Search term in sitemap

Hello @poweromania

Thanks for using the Yoast SEO plugin. By default, XML sitemaps are created for the following content types if they are public and have valid content:

• Posts, pages, and custom post types
• Authors (users with at least one published, public, indexable post)
• Custom post types
• Taxonomies
• Paginated states of multi-part posts/pages

Internal site search pages are excluded because they’re pretty much the last pages Google would want to send its visitors to. If you want to ruin a search experience, you link to other search pages instead of an actual result

However, the links on a search result page are still very valuable so you definitely want Google to follow them. So, all links should be followed, and the robots meta setting is usually:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">

Is there a way to include the search terms that users put into the search box into the sitemap?

To answer your question specifically, there’s a way to include the search terms that users put into the search box in the sitemap. The Yoast SEO plugin blocks this automatically. You can read more at https://yoast.com/internal-search/

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Maybellyne.

To answer your question specifically, there’s a way to include the search terms that users put into the search box in the sitemap. The Yoast SEO plugin blocks this automatically. You can read more at?https://yoast.com/internal-search/

@maybellyne reading through the link provided all i can find are ways to prevent or disallow google form indexing those pages.

I apologize for the typo in my sentence, thereby bringing confusion. What I meant is:

To answer your question specifically, there’s no way to include the search terms that users put into the search box in the sitemap. The Yoast SEO plugin blocks this automatically. You can read more at?https://yoast.com/internal-search/