: Would google index a page in sitemap which there is no direct link to it from website? Let's say I have a listing website with thousands of pages. I don't want to make all those pages(items)
Let's say I have a listing website with thousands of pages. I don't want to make all those pages(items) crawlable by others, unless they search for those items.
But, still I like to have all those pages indexed in google.
Please note that those pages do exist, and it is not a broken link, just that there is no direct link to those pages unless one uses search function of the website.
How can I achieve that?
One things that comes to my mind is to create a complete sitemap with all pages included and submit it to google for indexing. would it work!? Or google would complain that it cannot follow a path of links from home page to those (unlinked) pages?
Thanks
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Besides penalizing, when a visitor could not find a certain route to your pages which aren't defined by category or an index somehow, you may lose some page visits.
Also performing a "site:example.com" search in Google will reveal which URLs are indexed.
In addition, in normal ways of having a sitemap, anyone cloud find the sitemap and use it by typing the address and the filename like "Example.com/sitemap.xml".
With that in mind, if you are looking to protect your data against piracy, you can register your site within the search engines, or adding meta-tags to declare the content's author, or use some tools like Google Alerts, Copyscape, &... that are described here.
And if you want to hide your sitemap there are some suggestions like: Do not use frequent used address/filenames, check the User-Agent of the bots you want to allow &... that are described here.
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