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What pages to include in sitemap?

by DavidO
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I assume that only public content pages should be included in a sitemap but what about all the other stuff that my generator program picks up? These include audio and video files and pdf downloads.

Another thing: my sitemap includes both rootdomain.com and rootdomain/index.html
These are the same page but I suppose that's so obvious that there's no potential to confuse it with duplicate content???

Are there any guidelines about what goes into a sitemap?
#include #pages #sitemap
  • Profile picture of the author bobmcalister
    me too I need more education in that
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    • Profile picture of the author Devilfish
      rootdomain.com and rootdomain/index.html ARE duplicated content. You should choose which one you want to use and 301 redirect the other url to it. A .htaccess file would be the easiest way to do this.

      Generally, in a sitemap, yes you only want content that is going to be read, i.e. static pages, posts, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author balikpapan
    I also still confused with this ..
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin_Hutto
    yep... you also want to keep out any pages you dont want to show up in the index - like pages that people have to opt-in to see...
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