How to Exclude Author Pages From Sitemap

Hi @nicozanches,

Thanks for sharing, I’ve updated the post! You won’t see the author pages in your sitemap when you’ve already disabled the author archives. You can enable and disable them here: SEO -> Titles & Metas -> Archives -> Author Archives.

If that’s not the case for you, can you show me a link to your sitemap?

Hi, tranks.
Thanks to your reply I think I know how to fix it now. Following your guide link and your answer.
I activated author archives (with meta robots no index). I modified the content of the title to not show author’s name (in title & metas tab).
Then I went to XML Sitemap tab. I had the tab for ‘Users sitemap’ and I disabled the site map of any users from the meta box.

If is this correct I leave the message for anyone who had the same problem. If it is not the solution what should i do?

Now I’m going to the search console to explore as google.

Many thanks in advanced.
Best Regards
Nicolas

• This reply was modified 8 years, 2 months ago by nicozanches.

Hi @nicozanches,

Excluding a page/post from your sitemap won’t stop Google from indexing it. If you want a page/post not to appear in the search results, you should add the noindex tag. This guide can help you with that: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-do-i-noindex-urls/.

Please note that it can take a while for Google to remove them from the search results. It will happen when Google crawls that page again, for more information see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93710?hl=en. You can fetch as Google to force a crawl of a specific page.

Good luck!