Google WebMaster tools flag an error of ‘noindex” for the html map

Hi All –

Just reading your suggestions as I, too, received this for one of my sites.

I unchecked the box. Do I need to resubmit the sitemaps on google?

Thank you!

No resubmit required. It may take a few days for Google to update their message, though. But it will just happen.

Alex

Thank you!

Try this a temporary fix,

Just comment php code in this file google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php

Find this code line 1574

		//Do not index the actual XML pages, only process them.
		//This avoids that the XML sitemaps show up in the search results.
		if(!headers_sent()) header('X-Robots-Tag: noindex', true, 200);

Just comment out the last line by adding // before.

And the other file xml code in this file sitemap.xsl

Find this code

Line 12:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

Comment it out like this

<!--<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />-->

I’m waiting google response as they are validating my fix for the current issue and will update my post soon ??

Thanks.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by egycode.
• This reply was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by egycode.

Changing the plugin should only be done by the developer.

@cdgweb It can help speed up a developer’s work if you change the code to test on your end and offer it to them in case it works. However, in this case, I don’t think it’s the correct behavior. They should instead look into not adding that page to the sitemap.xml (as others have done earlier.) I don’t personally see any value in having such a page in your sitemap.xml anyway. It’s not going to help your SEO.

I noticed

i was using “Google Sitemap Generator Plugin by Arne Brachhold”. It was not making all my posts site maps so i removed it and started using the yoast built in maps building tool. But now i even don’t have the plugin installed it still has “no-indexing” issues. Well, there should not be any problem because sitemaps are already indexed by google from yoast maps. But I am really concerned how do i completely turn off this feature that Google Sitemap Generator Plugin by Arne Brachhold plugin created.

Solution:

Then i went to my cPanel and under file manager, of the concerned website:
Go to the website location:
Go to WP Content
Go to Plugins
Select Google Site Maps
and Delete it. Let it go to the trash.
Now i don’t have any problem because not sitemap.html redirects me to yoast maps.
Cheers

• This reply was modified 6 years, 10 months ago by veerubhinder.