Sitemap coming up in Google's index?
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I apologize if this question's answer is glaringly obvious, but I was using Google to view all the pages it has indexed of our site--by searching for our company and then clicking the link that says to display more results for the site.
On page three, it has the sitemap indexed as if it wee just another page of our site.
<cite>www.stadriemblems.com/sitemap.xml</cite>
Is this supposed to happen?
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That is really strange. It's annoying how Google will index something like the sitemap itself, put then only index 41 or 43 files from that sitemap!
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Yeah, strange as it seems even a robots.txt file will be indexed and can potentially (unlikely though) rank for a query.
For example, arenaflowers ranks 4th (in the UK anyway)
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Thanks. I guess I could have done that myself--doh! i just didn't think of it.
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Sure Marisa, it's perfectly normal for the sitemap.xml to be indexed.
Just to confirm for you, view SEOmoz's sitemaps within the SERPs:
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