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Hi Martijn,

I wonder if i block my sitemaps from robots.txt, could google bot reach my sitemaps?

Hello!

We are managing SEO campaign of a video website. We have an issue about sitemap folders.

I have sitemaps like ** /xml/sitemap-name.xml .** But Google is indexing my /xml/ folder and also sitemaps and they appear in search results.

If i will add Disallow: /xml/ to my robots.txt and remove /xml/ folder from webmaster tools, Google could see my sitemaps? or it ignores them?

Will my site effect negatively after remove /xml/ folder completely from search results?

What should i do?