I have got a website setup in Sitecore. My sitemap is an item in sitecore which is under the homepage.
I am able to access my sitemap by typing following URL: http://example.com/xmlsitemap Whereas xmlsitemap is the name of the item in Sitecore. Which has the rendering to get the XML sitemap given below:
XmlDocument SiteMap = new XmlDocument();
SiteMap.Load(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/") + "//SiteMap//Sitemap-" + Sitecore.Context.Site.SiteInfo.Name + ".xml");
return this.Content(SiteMap.InnerXml, "text/xml");
I have got multiple site setup in sitecore. That's why I created sitemap as an Item in sitecore. So that it gets the right sitemap for each website.
The issue is when I submit this sitemap to google using the URL. It is indexing the sitemap URL as well and it is appearing in the actual results.
I know I can stop google from indexing my sitemap by adding X-Robot-Tag: noindex. But I can't do it IIS because it is not an item inside the website directory.
Any ideas on how that can be achieved?
You can specify the header in your web.config by specifying it within a location node.
<configuration>
...
<location path="xmlsitemap">
<system.webServer>
<httpProtocol>
<customHeaders>
<add name="X-Robots-Tag" value="noindex" />
</customHeaders>
</httpProtocol>
</system.webServer>
</location>
</configuration>
You can add this manually, the file does not need to be physically present in IIS.
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