Title: [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Include categories / archives
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Include categories / archives

 *  Resolved [Bart van Poll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartvanpoll/)
 * (@bartvanpoll)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-include-categories-archives/)
 * Hello,
 * Great plugin. It’s been very helpful so far!
 * I’ve decided I do want the category & archives pages to be **indexed **(to avoid
   double content for crawlers). I do this by excluding these pages in the All in
   One SEO plugin.
 * But I’m not sure if I need to deselect “include categories” and “include archives”
   in this Google-Sitemap-Generator plugin too…
 * Can you let me know what you think?
 * Thanks a lot

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 *  [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * (@arnee)
 * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-include-categories-archives/#post-937883)
 * Hi,
 * if you leave the checkboxes NOT checked (empty), the pages will NOT appear in
   your sitemap. This is also the default behaviour for archives and categories 
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [Bart van Poll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartvanpoll/)
 * (@bartvanpoll)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-include-categories-archives/#post-937939)
 * Hi Arnee,
 * Thanks a lot for your help! Now I’m confident that I can uncheck them.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Bart van Poll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bartvanpoll/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-google-xml-sitemaps-include-categories-archives/#post-937939)
 * Status: resolved

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