Sitemap not showing all categories

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I have built my sitemap with the XML Sitemap plugin and checked Include Categories to be indexed. For some reason 6 of my categories are not being added to the sitemap but the rest are.

I have cleared my cache several times and then rebuilt the sitemap but same story.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

Thanks
#categories #showing #sitemap
  • Profile picture of the author Summer1
    Hey affl77, have you checked your robots.txt?

    Sometimes robots.txt can block your categories..
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    • Profile picture of the author BradH23
      Hey Summer,

      I have not. Not really sure how to do that. Where would I check that?

      thanks for the help
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  • Profile picture of the author Summer1
    affl77,

    To check, you can type your URL, example, myblog.com/robots.txt

    It can depend on your theme code as well, for example, your theme code has nofollow attribute on the categories link..
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    • Profile picture of the author BradH23
      robots.txt is not showing any disallows and the "my category links and pages" are set to be indexed in the theme I am using.

      The category pages were not showing up as indexed so that is what let me to the sitemap not being correct.

      I guess I will try to social bookmark the category pages and hope they get indexed.

      Weird.

      Thanks for the help.
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