Remove non-canonical page from sitemap

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    You can remove pages from the sitemap using the indexing directive: Apply noindex to the page, and the page will be removed from the sitemap.

    Thread Starter christoph-ED

    (@webagenturerding)

    Hi.

    thx for ur answer.

    but then the page is not in google index.

    Brian Ott

    (@brianott)

    I have discovered the same issue. The canonical URL is in The SEO Framework but the page is still listed on the site map.

    Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    Sorry for abandoning this thread abruptly.

    To clarify: When a canonical URL of a page points elsewhere, the page isn’t indexable. We do not check for the canonical URL in the sitemap but only for the indexing and redirection states. Setting a post to noindex will remove it from the sitemap, but search engines can still read the canonical URL.

    In rare cases, you may want a page with an outbound canonical URL in the sitemap. This is an SEO hack; the gist is that search engines will spot the canonical URL change quickly.

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