Sitemap lists noindex pages
Medium priorityOn-page SEO
Pages in your XML sitemap are set to noindex, so your sitemap asks Google to index pages that ask not to be indexed.
What triggers this issue
- One or more sampled sitemap URLs have a
noindexrobots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header.
Why it matters
Google reports this as “Submitted URL marked noindex” in Search Console. It is a conflicting signal that wastes crawl budget and makes your sitemap less trustworthy.
How to fix it
- Decide for each page: if it should rank, remove noindex; if not, remove it from the sitemap.
- In most CMSs, noindexed pages are dropped from the sitemap automatically once the plugin settings agree.