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sitemap.entry.noindex

A sitemap must not list URLs that ask not to be indexed

warningsite-widevendor-spec

Why it matters

"Please index this" and "do not index this" are one site's two answers to one question. Only judged on pages the crawl actually fetched: an entry goflag never opened has no noindex to have seen, and guessing either way would invent a finding or hide one.

What the finding looks like

The message goflag prints, with example values substituted.

warn sitemap.entry.noindex 2 sitemap entries declare noindex: https://example.com/draft. "Please index this" and "do not index this" are the same site's two answers to one question.

How to fix it

The catalogue carries no snippet for a site rule: a cross-page rule builds its remedy from what the crawl found, so goflag attaches the fix to the finding itself rather than to the rule. Run it and read the finding.

Says who?

This rule is vendor-spec, and it cites the documents below. Nothing here is goflag’s opinion of what a good page looks like — if you disagree with a finding, this is what you are disagreeing with.