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SEOmatic facilitates modern SEO best practices & implementation for Craft CMS 3. It is a turnkey SEO system that is comprehensive, powerful, and flexible.
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Add ability to disable sitemap per site basis #1540

Closed samuel-clara closed 1 week ago

samuel-clara commented 1 week ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

When deploying a temporary landing page (I usually create a specific site/sites for the LP) to the production server I obviously have to change the environment to production. This makes adds the entire website to search engines, including the sections I add from time to time building the final website.

Describe the solution you would like

It would be super useful to have te ability to disable the sitemap on a site basis.

Describe alternatives you have considered

Now the only way is to disable the sitemap for each section and each site. Which is incredibly time consuming on a big site.

khalwat commented 1 week ago

If you disable the site itself, none of the sitemaps for any sections in that site should be enabled. Have you tried that?

samuel-clara commented 1 week ago

Yes but doing so I can't see all the entries for that site. And I need to see them locally and on the staging server.

khalwat commented 1 week ago

Keep in mind that if the URLs are indeed public, Google et al will often find and index them regardless of whether they are in a sitemap or not:

https://nystudio107.com/blog/seo-myths-top-5-sitemap-myths-demystified

With that said, maybe the best option for you would be to not disable the site, but rather toggle off the This site has its own base URL setting?

SEOmatic will then not generate a sitemap for it, but also I think then the URLs won't be publicly available as well (not 100% sure on the latter).