"noindex" page still appears in the site's own search and in the sitemap

What you are seeing

A "noindex" page still appears in the site's own search and in the sitemap.


#Why it happens

The noindex setting only adds a tag for external search engines. It does not remove the page from the site's search index, the sitemap, or llms.txt.


#What to do

If a page must not be discoverable at all, exclude it with capable-sites-exclude rather than noindex.



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