Sitemap XML in Google SERP - You may prevent it from Indexing

Origin Of Post : Digital Inspiration

(Prevent Search Engines from Indexing your Sitemaps)

From Few Months you can easily see sitemap.xml listing in your Google SERP,

it create collision with your main focused keywords as you see here in Google search as :

You can found the title of XML sitemap which same containing keywords as your site, so to avoid collision of pages in crawler mind prevent it from indexation..

Here is .htaccess file modification ....

 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<Files sitemap.xml>
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</Files>
</IfModule>

Incase of More than One sitemap

 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
<Files ~ "^(sitemap1|sitemap2|sitemap3)\.xml$">
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noindex"
</Files>
</IfModule>

Note: Impact Not Yet Tested , It just a Read-cast and Thought , need to be tested.

Posted: Sujit Kumar Lucky