Noindexed pages in sitemaps

anvarjamalsaifi commented 4 years ago

Hi there, we wanted to remove blog categories pages, author pages, blog tag pages from appearing in Google Search results as they were taking unnecessary real estate. To do that, we used 'noindex' option available in Sprout SEO - > Sections -> Category (Blog) -> Robots -> noindex. (Screenshot 1)

We were able to achieve that and now our these categories pages don't appear on Google. That's good. But on checking our Search Console, Google gives us a warning that we have no-indexed pages in our sitemap. The exact error is "Submitted URL marked ‘noindex’". (Screenshot 2).

Any idea why this might be happening? One of the things I tried is to disable the Section itself which in-result disabled the category sitemap and removed the no-index tag from all the category pages. I think the solution might be if we could noindex pages without creating a sitemap. We have been trying to solve this issue and any help would be beneficial.

Regards, Jamal

anvarjamalsaifi commented 4 years ago

Can I please get some idea on this?

BenParizek commented 4 years ago

@anvarjamalsaifi This is a bug. I'll work on getting a release out shortly to correct this and will update this thread once I do.

anvarjamalsaifi commented 4 years ago

@BenParizek Thank you so much for your time. If you shall need more information on this, let me know.

anvarjamalsaifi commented 4 years ago

@BenParizek Hi Ben, any idea how long the fix is going to take? Thanks!

mikemccarron commented 2 years ago

@BenParizek Following up on this bug. This issue has popped up for us on a site recently. I saw this thread but noticed there hasn't been any progress since. Is this still in progress? ETA?

anvarjamalsaifi commented 3 months ago

@BenParizek Hi Ben, following upon this again, any status on this please? Hope you're doing well!

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Noindexed pages in sitemaps #60