I’m facing an issue where my sitemap file is being indexed and appearing on SERPs, which I want to avoid. My goal is to allow search engines to crawl and use the sitemap to discover pages on my website but prevent the sitemap itself from being indexed.
Here is my website: avua
@supriya1 Have you tried Googling an answer?
The first result I found:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/176270682/my-website-s-xml-sitemap-is-coming-on-google-serp?hl=en
You should also validate your sitemap, it seems to be malformed:
Thanks @nathanmartin will surly correct it.
