Noindex But Still in Sitemap

This page has <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> in its head, telling search engines not to index it. However, it is still included in the XML sitemap, which tells search engines "please index this page."

These contradictory signals confuse crawlers and waste crawl budget. If a page should not be indexed, it should also be removed from the sitemap.

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