Noindex in Sitemap

Checks for noindexed pages listed in sitemap

Rule ID	crawl/noindex-in-sitemap
Category	Crawlability
Scope	Site-wide
Severity	warning
Weight	5/10

Solution

Pages with noindex meta tags should not be in your sitemap. Sitemaps tell search engines which pages to index, while noindex tells them not to. Having both sends mixed signals. Remove noindexed pages from your sitemap, or remove the noindex directive if you want them indexed. Use a sitemap generator that respects robots directives.

Enable / Disable

Disable this rule

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/noindex-in-sitemap"]

Disable all Crawlability rules

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/*"]

Enable only this rule

[rules]
enable = ["crawl/noindex-in-sitemap"]
disable = ["*"]