How to Exclude Some Posts from Yoast Sitemap

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How to Exclude Some Posts from Yoast Sitemap
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How to Exclude Some Posts from Yoast Sitemap
In this tutorial we are going to share how to
exclude some posts from Yoast Sitemap by using
Yoast - a great SEO plugin. If you have installed
Yoast SEO plugin and enabled XML Sitemaps, then
this presentation is only for you. Follow the
next slides
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Why Do You Need to Hide Some Posts from Sitemap?
You might need to hide some pages from Sitemap.
You dont want to index your login, logout,
unsubscribe, success or thank you pages in Google
or any other search engines, right?
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Why Do You Need to Hide Some Posts from Sitemap?
When you set up sitemap.xml for your website,
these pages are automatically visible. To hide
these pages, you need to exclude these pages from
sitemap.xml
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Why Do You Need to Hide Some Posts from Sitemap?
Another scenario could be, you have just imported
demo data from a premium WordPress template. You
have already modified and published all your
required pages. Moreover, you have unpublished
all those demo posts. But they can be visible in
Sitemap.xml.
Now lets move to the next topic
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How Can You Hide Posts or Pages from Yoast Sitemap
Follow these steps

1. Login to WordPress Admin Panel.
2. Mouse over to SEO (Yoast Plugin)
3. Click on XML Sitemaps
4. Click on Excluded Posts. Here you will include
   all those posts/pages IDs what you want to hide
   from Sitemap.xml

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How to Find Post/Page IDs in WordPress

1. Mouse over to Pages. Click on All Pages
2. Use Search Box to find your desired page (if
   you have 100s to 1000s of pages)
3. Click on Edit
4. Check the URL now. You need to take the ID just
   beside the post

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How to Find Post/Page IDs in WordPress
Now you need to include these IDs in Excluded
Posts field of Yoast XML Sitemaps. This is how
you can exclude some posts from Yoast Sitemap!
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How to Exclude Some Posts from Yoast Sitemap
You can watch this video tutorial for better
understanding.
https//youtu.be/8xFoNG06fV8
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