# Add the possibility to exclude pages/collection item pages from sitemap.xml **URL:** \ **Category:** Website Builder Request\ **Created:** [June 25, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416 "2021-06-25T05:18:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucian\_Dinu](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/lucian_dinu/32/141_2.png) [@Lucian\_Dinu](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Lucian_Dinu)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2021, 5:18am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/1 "2021-06-25T05:18:10Z")
Hi! Currently there is no way to exclude from sitemap.xml specific pages or collection items generated pages. The problem is that I might have a blog, and some blog posts (even if I create a status field) that I’m still working on them (so they are in “draft” mode) they are still appearing in the sitemap.xml The same problem is for normal pages. As a minimal implementation, can we add a global option in Website settings → SEO / META (tab) to exclude specific urls from sitemap.xml ? P.S. I know that you can add excludes in robots.txt but this can be easily ignored, and the links are still visible in sitemap.xml ---
**Author:** ![Naz\_Haque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Naz\_Haque](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Naz_Haque)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2021, 2:41pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/2 "2021-09-10T14:41:24Z")
- 1 This is a must for best SEO practice otherwise Google will waste the crawl budget and devalue the website. ---
**Author:** ![Imre\_Fekete](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/imre_fekete/32/27_2.png) [@Imre\_Fekete](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Imre_Fekete)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/3 "2021-09-14T08:25:29Z")
Big big vote for this must have feature. I think it is quite an easy feature to implement. ---
**Author:** ![Thomas\_Dandel](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/thomas_dandel/32/830_2.png) [@Thomas\_Dandel](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Thomas_Dandel)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2021, 9:51am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/4 "2021-10-08T09:51:44Z")
I agree ! +1 ! ---
**Author:** ![AJ\_Joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d26b3c/32.png) [@AJ\_Joe](https://community.sitejet.io/u/AJ_Joe)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2022, 11:51am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/5 "2022-05-18T11:51:31Z")
+1 We should be able to have a draft page for work in progress before publishing it, thus having it in the sitemap. ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Kaesmacher](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/daniel_kaesmacher/32/972_2.png) [@Daniel\_Kaesmacher](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Daniel_Kaesmacher)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 6:24am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/6 "2022-05-19T06:24:08Z")
Yes, please! +1 ---
**Author:** ![Mark\_Fosseprez](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/mark_fosseprez/32/58_2.png) [@Mark\_Fosseprez](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Mark_Fosseprez)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 7:36am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/7 "2022-05-19T07:36:26Z")
+1 for me too ---
**Author:** ![Praveen\_Singh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Praveen\_Singh](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Praveen_Singh)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/8 "2022-08-25T22:55:46Z")
+1 this is important ---
**Author:** ![Arthur\_van\_Veen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/arthur_van_veen/32/1173_2.png) [@Arthur\_van\_Veen](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Arthur_van_Veen)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2022, 3:00pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/9 "2022-10-06T15:00:28Z")
+1 would be very usefull ---
**Author:** ![Isabell\_Mende](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/isabell_mende/32/1375_2.png) [@Isabell\_Mende](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Isabell_Mende)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 1:52pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/11 "2022-12-15T13:52:42Z")
+1 – absolutely necessary ---
**Author:** ![Andre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/andre/32/3459_2.png) [@Andre](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Andre)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/12 "2022-12-15T18:01:07Z")
Do you have a source for this? ---
**Author:** ![Naz\_Haque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Naz\_Haque](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Naz_Haque)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/13 "2022-12-16T22:54:25Z")
I posted about this with sources last year. Let me see if I can find this under my profile. ---
**Author:** ![Naz\_Haque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Naz\_Haque](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Naz_Haque)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/14 "2022-12-16T22:54:46Z")
@Andre > [@Advanced SEO Features](https://community.sitejet.io/t/advanced-seo-features/995/3): > > Lucian, Thank you for such a prompt response slight_smile Can you arrange a feature for manually amending the sitemap.xml? This is needed to stop users/competitors to find hidden pages such as black-friday deals and ppc landing pages and web form completion pages. By having these pages in the sitemap.xml, we’re advising crawlers to read these pages. This is bad for SEO as it wastes Google Crawl budget. See: I cancelled my initial sitejet account because it was lacking important secu… ---
**Author:** ![Andre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/andre/32/3459_2.png) [@Andre](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Andre)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2022, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/15 "2022-12-17T19:26:44Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![Barbara\_Bichler](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/barbara_bichler/32/3745_2.png) [@Barbara\_Bichler](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Barbara_Bichler)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2023, 9:20am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/16 "2023-01-18T09:20:47Z")
- 1 neccessary - Any news about this? ---
**Author:** ![Jonny\_Shipman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@Jonny\_Shipman](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Jonny_Shipman)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2023, 12:38pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/17 "2023-03-29T12:38:32Z")
1 - get this in asap - our SEO service is a contact firefight in SJ. ---
**Author:** ![Naz\_Haque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Naz\_Haque](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Naz_Haque)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/18 "2023-07-27T14:04:52Z")
@Andre and team this thread for this feature has been running for two years now. Can you give us some hope and update if you’re working on this? Surely there are workarounds available too… E.G can we be allowed to 301 sitemap.xml page to a custom url like site-map.xml, and allow us to upload a customed xml sitemap there ourselves? ---
**Author:** ![Andre](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/andre/32/3459_2.png) [@Andre](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Andre)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 9:01am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/19 "2023-07-28T09:01:36Z")
> E.G can we be allowed to 301 sitemap.xml page to a custom url like site-map.xml, and allow us to upload a customed xml sitemap there ourselves? You can actually upload a sitemap already for a long time 🙂 > **[A sitemap.xml for your website - Sitejet Help](https://help.sitejet.io/article/1128-sitemap-xml)** > > A sitemap.xml file is an important part for the search engine optimization of your website. In this article, we explain its functions and how you can use it. Ta Excluding collection items manually is not part of it. ---
**Author:** ![Naz\_Haque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Naz\_Haque](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Naz_Haque)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 11:39am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/20 "2023-07-28T11:39:16Z")
Hey Andre, I don’t see any reference on the page to upload sitemaps to Sitejet. Forgive me if I’ve missed something. ---
**Author:** ![Martin.Sitejet.Team](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.sitejet.io/martin.sitejet.team/32/25_2.png) [@Martin.Sitejet.Team](https://community.sitejet.io/u/Martin.Sitejet.Team)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2023, 9:08am UTC](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416/21 "2023-08-01T09:08:18Z")
Hi @Naz_Haque, you could try the same way as adding a robot.txt > **[Add a robots.txt file - Sitejet Help](https://help.sitejet.io/article/740-add-robots-txt)** > > A robots.txt file is an important part of the search engine optimization of your website. In this article we explain how to add a robots.txt file and what funct [Next page](https://community.sitejet.io/t/add-the-possibility-to-exclude-pages-collection-item-pages-from-sitemap-xml/416.md?page=2)