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As content fluctuates on our site, we will obviously add the titles to the new pages to our sitemap, and link list for search engine indexing.

Through time, certain links will become less relevant, and would like to know how to avoid them being crawled. The links themselves may not be removed - but we don't want to dilute the link list with less relevant links as time passes.

I'm guessing the status code of the page would change - to what? Should they also removed from the sitemap?

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Sitemaps are to tell search engines where to find your pages so they can be indexed. Removing pages will not cause search engines to stop crawling those pages or have them removed from their index.

Additionally, the quantity of links in an XML sitemap will not hurt or help SEO or make search engines think pages are worth more (or less) if there are fewer links (or more links).

Don't remove pages from your site or search engine index unless the information on it is wrong or obsolete. Let the search engines determine how relevant a page is for a search result. That's what they do. And the more pages you have indexed* the better it is for your site as it is more opportunities to be found plus various other on-page SEO factors (internal linking, etc).

*crappy low quality/duplicate content pages not withstanding

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