: SEO put no-indexed pages in sitemap or not? On my site I have products. Each product has many releases. Each release has many changelogs. A changelog is one of many categories (eg, "Bug
On my site I have products. Each product has many releases. Each release has many changelogs. A changelog is one of many categories (eg, "Bug Fix", "Performance Improvement" etc).
I have created useful auto generated pages for each product, which lists all the changelogs for a product of a category (Eg "Product's Bug Fix History").
However, due to how data is structured and cached it's impossible to know if there are any "Bug Fixes" for a product without doing very expensive queries.
On the history pages themselves, I put a meta noindex tag on the page if no changelogs exist. However, I'm unsure if I should include these pages on my sitemap.
Would it be better to include them on my sitemap when possibly at a lot of them are meta-noindexed, or just allow for natural crawler discovery?
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I'm kind of wondering if I've missunderstood your question, but... there is no point putting "noindex" pages in your XML sitemap.
An XML sitemap advertises the pages you want indexed. So, including a "noindex" page in your XML sitemap is sending a mixed signal to the search engines and doesn't make much sense.
A sitemap is only advisory, to help the search engines discover pages that may otherwise be hard to find. So providing the pages you want indexed are linked internally then you may not really need the XML sitemap at all. (Although submitting a sitemap to Google Search Console can provide some additional reporting capability.)
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