: Should Isolated Content appear in Sitemap for SEO purposes? I have a website with some content that I purposefully want to leave isolated (no incoming internal links) from the rest of the website.

I have a website with some content that I purposefully want to leave isolated (no incoming internal links) from the rest of the website.

I do however want SEO benefits from the content of these pages and want to include these in an XML sitemap for Google to crawl.

Would Google’s crawler have any issues with content that's included in the sitemap but is not reachable from anywhere in the rest of the website? Or is this okay?

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This is one of the reasons sitemaps exists. So search engines can find content that they may normally not be able to find through the usual means (i.e. links). So, yes, put these pages in your sitemap.

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