: How to handle Partials in a Sitemap? Let's say I've got all of my pages laid out like root/page.php combined with root/content/page.php page.php includes: header.php footer.php sometemplate.php menu.php

@Radia820

You should index whatever the visitor is viewing and not internal by-parts of your template.

Files such as footer.php, header.php, nav.phpare commonly called using PHP Include, because of the nature of the way PHP includes work, the visitor doesn't see any of these files but rather a complete render of all parts, it is the final outcome that you should want to index.

Using good PHP practices your php template files should not be directly accessible, so even if you did include them in your sitemap, Google and other search engines would not index those pages, because the server should be returning a valid server-side response with either a 404 not found, or 403 forbidden.

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