Title: Small SEO question
Last modified: April 29, 2026

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# Small SEO question

 *  Resolved [kellymann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellymann/)
 * (@kellymann)
 * [1 week ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/small-seo-question/)
 * I’m checking the Yoast SEO settings and got a bit confused about XML sitemaps.
   When some pages are set to noindex, does Yoast remove them from the sitemap by
   itself? Just wanted to confirm.

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 *  Plugin Support [Maybellyne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maybellyne/)
 * (@maybellyne)
 * [5 days, 1 hour ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/small-seo-question/#post-18896546)
 * Hello [@kellymann](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kellymann/),
 * Thanks for your question. When a post is set to `noindex`, it is excluded from
   the XML sitemap. Only content you want to be indexable are included in the sitemap.

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