No: ‘noindex’ sitemap error

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  • Resolved Lloyd Bembury
    Rank Math free

    Hello,

    I am getting this error from google search console and I don’t know why or how to fix it to get my site indexed. Please advise.

    No: ‘noindex’ detected in ‘X-Robots-Tag’ http header

    Thanks
    Lloyd Bembury

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  • Prabhat
    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    Thanks for your reply.

    I checked and your sitemaps are loading without any issues. https://i.rankmath.com/tbmaP7

    It is completely normal for the sitemap files to be set to No Index since you do not want them to be indexed on SERPs.

    The sitemaps are intended to be crawled by the search engines but they are not to be indexed/displayed on the search results and hence the sitemaps are kept as No Index.

    Also, setting the sitemap to No Index does not, in any manner prevent, the sitemaps from getting crawled by the search engine bots.

    Hope that helps.

    Thank you.

    Thanks for the reply,

    So my site will still get indexed by google? with this error? I never saw this error in search console before with any other site?

    Prabhat
    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    Thank you for your reply.

    Absolutely, the No Index tag on the sitemaps would not, in any way, affect the indexing of your website/posts/pages.

    The sitemaps are kept as No Index only to ensure that they are not themselves indexed.

    Hope that helps.

    Thank you.

    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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