Exclude NoIndex Pages From Sitemap

How are you setting them to noindex? Can you give me an example? Is it via the eCommerce plugin etc?

Given the way the new (beta) Google Search console treats noindexed pages that are in the sitemap I would find this extremely useful as well. Various SEO plugins are available to create the noindex meta tags, but there is also a header.php script available to add the noindex tag to all posts by designated category.

It’s possible to categorize all noindexed posts/pages as such, then filter by that category including post ID, then copy that to a spreadsheet, then distill just the post IDs, then paste those into your plugin – but you see the PITA involved.

Having that function built into the plugin (e.g., reverse reading header noindex meta tags, then excluding) would be brilliant.

Hi, I’m using Yoast SEO plugin, so use this to set Noindex. In the Yoast support forum I mentioned that the new (beta) Google Search console now flags it as an issue if a page is set to NoIndex but appears in the XML sitemap. Yoast have said that this issue will be addressed in the their next update (version 6.4).

In addition to the simplicity, the casual level of support Yoast historically provides for its free products is one of the reasons I’m shopping for a more enterprising sitemap alternative that might directly address and solve in the nearer term what has popped up now as an almost universal problem.

Agree that the issue is present in all the current xml Sitemap plugins, hope it can be resolvd soon

Can I just confirm something. Are you both talking about XML sitemaps or HTML sitemaps? My Simple Sitemap plugin only displays HTML sitemaps.

I’m simply interested in the ability to easily/automatically remove many noindex posts & pages from the sitemap. I’ve used HTML sitemaps before and see no reason why one wouldn’t suffice now. I’m primarily interested in keeping thin pages out of Google’s judgemental indexing eye and indexing confusion out of Google’s new beta Search Console.

Hi David, Apologies, Yes I should have said said that this issue was with the html sitemap. The plugin lists all pages/posts and I was looking for an option to not list posts/pages flagged as noindex.