Hi John.

Does JSItemap provide a quick removal of double xml entries, before editing the links?

Example:

We are selling products in different categories. Some same products can be used in different categories.
Perhaps you can imagine there are double entries in the images.xml file.

I guess it is not a good idea to submit double entries to google etc.

Thank you,

With Regards,

Ron

Hi Ron,

as a sitemap generator JSitemap prevents automatically the inclusion of the same doubled link.

However if you have multiple different links to the same content the problem is different. To eliminate that you need to take care to have only 1 link/product in your Joomla website or as an alternative switch to an extension such as sh404sef to have an URL rewriting.
JSitemap has nothing to do with this aspect, moreover removing a link from the sitemap and still having it on the website would not have benefits.

With regards
John

PS: as a side note what you could do with JSitemap would be disallow the indexing status for certain link. Maybe this could be an alternative in your case to prevent indexing of some doubled links that you know. This is done through the Metainfo Dashboard, you find an exclusion switcher and a robots directive that can be set to noindex.

Hi John.

See Attachment.

I searched within the image.xml.

As you see in the attachment there a 5 same image locations within the xml.

You told me JSitemap does remove duplicates my itself.
I guess JSitemap did not removed duplicates in this xml.

Did you understood my explanation?

Ron

Oh no i was talking about links not images. I don't know what you exactly mean with image.xml but i guess you talk about the images sitemap.
Images can be included more than once that makes no differences, however for a certain link the same image is included only once too.

John

Hi John,

Ok.
So duplicates in an images sitemap is no problem, as you stated.

What are you trying to explain in this phrase: ... however for a certain link the same image is included only once too...


Ron