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Incubator Q&A Can I ask Google to stop indexing every URL that isn't in my XML sitemap?

I have an XML sitemap containing all the URLs that I want search engines to index. Unfortunately Google is indexing some URLs that are not in my XML sitemap. Is there a setting in Google Search C...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

#1: Initial revision by user avatar Stephen Ostermiller‭ · 2023-06-17T09:17:35Z (over 1 year ago)
Can I ask Google to stop indexing every URL that isn't in my XML sitemap?
I have an XML sitemap containing all the URLs that I want search engines to index.  Unfortunately Google is indexing some URLs that are **not** in my XML sitemap.  

Is there a setting in Google Search Console to have Google index **only** the URLs that are in the XML sitemap and stop indexing any URLs that are not contained in it?