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I have the following problem. My sitemap's content is shown in GOOGLE search results. There is a link to the sitemap on the main page. That can cause it. I have added this URL to GOOGLE as sitemap and I would like it to be treated as sitemap only, not as sitemap and webpage. How do I tell GOOGLE not to index it as webpage? Using robots.txt?

Thank you

John Conde
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Jacek Francuz
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    Are you sure that your sitemap is Xml and conforms to the http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd schema? – Kane Jul 28 '11 at 12:14
  • I am almost sure. Google indexes URLs from this sitemap correctly and tells that it's correct sitemap file (using Webmasters Tools). – Jacek Francuz Jul 28 '11 at 12:16

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The problem is that google is indexing everything where they find links to. You can prevent them with robots.txt as you stated.

robots.txt

Personally I have nerver seen something like that... If you link to your website somewhere and tell us which URL you added to GOOGLE as sitemap I could take a look at it and see if it has something to do withthe way your site is built.

Hope this helps :-) tell me if you need any more info

cwoebker
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