Sitemap contains Meta NOINDEX pages - Good or bad?
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Hi,
Our sitemap is created by our e-commerce software - Magento -
We are probably going to make a lot of products Meta No Index for the moment, until all the content has been corrected on them - but by default, as they are enabled, they will appear in Sitemap.
So, the question is:
"Should pages that are Meta NOINDEX be listed in a sitemap"? Does it matter?
thanks!
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Bad, the sitmap is telling SE's to index, the noindex is telling them not to.
Bing for one will ignore your sitemap if it is more then 2% incorrect.
As chis said, why noindex, this means that all links pointing to the no-indexed pages are wasting their link juice
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What's wrong with the content?
The meta noindex will prevent the pages from showing up in search results and from impacting search results if they've got duplicate content--regardless of whether they're in the sitemap or not. If you've got a lot of spammy outbound links, think about nofollowing, too.
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