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How do I prevent my sitemap from showing up in Search Engine results?

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    How do I prevent my sitemap from showing up in Search Engine results?

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    I've never seen this happen before. Are you sure it's formatted properly?

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    I haven't touched anything since you installed it a few weeks ago. You stated the default install should be good enough.

    How do I check if its formatted properly? Where exactly do I look?

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    Hello,

    Are you talking about the vBulletin 'Archive' feature?:

    http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap/

    If so, you may want to avoid adding their URLs to your sitemaps by editing the vBSEO Sitemap Generator settings.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrés Durán Hewitt View Post
    Hello,

    Are you talking about the vBulletin 'Archive' feature?:

    http://www.vbseo.com/sitemap/

    If so, you may want to avoid adding their URLs to your sitemaps by editing the vBSEO Sitemap Generator settings.
    Yes, however mine is http://www.mydomain.com/forums/sitemap/

    What exactly do I change in the settings?

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    This is actually the archive, yes.

    I recommend disabling it completely.
    [How To] Completely Turn Off the vBulletin Archive - vBulletin SEO Forums

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    Thanks Bryan. I followed all of those steps. Do you know when It'll go into effect? In other words, when will the archive page no longer be available in search engine results?

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    It can take some time to drop out of the index. It should show up on your 404 report first and then slowly drop out.

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