how to leave out page from sitemap

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  • Resolved Mike Willochell

    3 years ago

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    is there a way to leave a page like the blog page out of the sitemap i have those blog posts linking to a page but i am getting on ahrefs a error for page with no incoming links which is the blog page however i dont want anyone to go to that page directly, im not sure if this will hurt my seo with google or not any help is greatly appricated. see screen shot
    https://ibb.co/J2KMTLK

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  • Mike Willochell

    3 years ago

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    https://ibb.co/nCYtjxv

    Mike Willochell

    3 years ago

    Rank Math free

    also how do i fix this
    https://ibb.co/yV7vLPp
    i looked at the recent help article about how to configure sitemap but in sitemap settings under general i only have 2 options not all the options in the screen shot you guys provide the url that i want to leave out from the sitemap in the above ticket is
    https://theheatingandairconditioningexperts.com/blog/

    Jaideep Asrani

    3 years ago

    Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    1. If you don’t want the Blog page to be included in the sitemap and also don’t want it available for users then you can simply set it to noindex by editing the page and setting the robots meta as noindex in the Advanced tab of the meta box.

    2. It seems like you are using the easy mode of Rank Math. Some options are only available in the Advanced mode. Please follow this guide to switch to the advanced mode: https://rankmath.com/kb/switch-from-easy-to-advanced-mode/

    Once done, you will be able to see the Links Per Sitemap option.

    Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any other assistance.

    Mike Willochell

    3 years ago

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    hey so i switched the blog page to noindex and switched to advanced so in the second image with 3x redirect how do i fix that it seams its my header and footer?

    Mike Willochell

    3 years ago

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    actually it seams i have all these redirects now https://ibb.co/DKCG7Jk

    Mike Willochell

    3 years ago

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    also the 404 monitor that means someone clicked on somthing and it didnt go anywhere? or didnt load? is there a way fix those when i run the site on ahrefs i dont get any 404s comming up but i do in the 404 monitor im a little confused

    Prabhat

    3 years ago

    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    For the first screenshot (https://ibb.co/yV7vLPp), I checked and the header, footer are redirecting to the homepage. As these are just the header and footer of the website, they do not need to be separately indexed.

    The sitemap /elementor-hf-sitemap.xml only contains these two URLs. You can simply disable that sitemap from Rank Math > Sitemap Settings, to fix this.

    Coming to the second screenshot (https://ibb.co/DKCG7Jk), the last two URLs are the same as above. The two URLs with dates are not present in the sitemap and the remaining URLs are the variations of your website which should be redirected to the preferred variation. So, you can safely ignore those errors.

    However, I tested the variations of the website with https://httpstatus.io/ and the HTTP + WWW variation has a double 301 redirection.

    Please ensure that only a single 301 redirection is be applied to the non-preferred variations of the website. You can get in touch with your web host to fix this.

    Regarding the 404s, you can fix them by following this guide:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-404-errors/

    Hope this helps.

    Thank you.

    RankBot

    2 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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