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I’m sorry but this just isn’t true AT ALL. XML sitemaps aren’t indexed like normal webpages. Or at least: they shouldn’t be. Google reads them differently and doesn’t obey the indexing directives when it ingests them like that. Sometimes they get linked to on the web as well. At that point, Google *does* index them normally, and follows indexing directives. So we set the noindex header on the XML sitemaps so as to make it impossible for XML sitemaps to start showing up in search results. They do *not* prevent Google from using them for what they’re important for: getting URLs into the index.
We talk regularly to Google and are in fact looking at making XML sitemaps better for everyone together with them, so I’m 100% certain of this.
This is the exact opposite of the results we have seen and the exact opposite of what John Mueller of Google Web Trends Analysts says. It is also exact opposite of what the Alexa charts show, so all data from very credible sources say or show that your claim is incorrect.
No it’s not. See this: https://twitter.com/johnmu/status/1083093012266340362?s=21
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