A sitemap that contradicts the page
- Forbidden
- A route listed in the sitemap whose own metadata says
noindex; a sitemap entry for a page that does not exist; a<loc>written as a path,/pricing, which the format does not accept and a crawler drops - Instead
- One answer per route. The sitemap lists what is indexable, as full URLs, and nothing else.
What this rule looks like
Why this rule
Contradicting yourself in two files tells a crawler you do not know which is true, and it will decide for you. A sitemap needs the site's origin, so a project that has none yet has nothing to write: no sitemap is honest, and one full of paths is not.
- Kind
- Rule
- Section
- Things to avoid
- Group
- Search and sharing
- Bucket
- judgment
- Severity
- error
- Since
- v0.14.0