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

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

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

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?

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.

Originally Posted by Andrés Durán Hewitt

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?

This is actually the archive, yes.

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

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?

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.