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I would like to have something cleared up.

On a member based website, there are certain pages that can only be accessed by a particular member; such as edit profile, edit password..etc.

My question is, do those pages need to be included in the sitemap that is submitted to search engines?

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    This question appears to be off-topic because it is about SEO – John Conde May 19 '14 at 18:51
  • do you want google to publicly list the private pages that should only be accessible by members? can google even crawl the private pages if they are not a member of your site? – celeriko May 19 '14 at 18:53
  • Nope they can't crawl those pages if they are not a member. So I guess I won't include them in the sitemap. – user3639110 May 19 '14 at 19:00
  • Asking how a search engine will display/rank/parse your site is off topic. It might be more suitable on [Webmasters](http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/). – random May 20 '14 at 19:04

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No. Only add pages that you want search engines to index and are available to the search engine to be crawled. These pages do not meet either criteria.

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