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: Will there be a conflict between my Sitemap.xml and robots.txt? I have a robots.txt with the following in it: User-agent: * Disallow: http://tests.compkerworld.com/report_question_error.php?question_id=*&url=*

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I have a robots.txt with the following in it:

User-agent: *
Disallow: tests.compkerworld.com/report_question_error.php?question_id=*&url=* Sitemap: tests.compkerworld.com/sitemap.xml

My sitemap.xml, which is auto-generated, has all the URLs even those disallowed using robots.txt.

I have no problem if the search engines crawl all the pages, but I want to know if such an entry will create any kind of conflict for crawlers.

One more question: is the above syntax for disallowing correct?

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@Kristi941

Apparently Google will not crawl them and will report them as being blocked in Google Webmasters Tools. If that error message, which does not affect your rankings, is annoying to you then you will need to remove those pages from your sitemap.

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