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What does set robot metadata to none do and other options in the output settings?

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What does set robot metadata to none do and other options in the output settings?

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There are four output options that can be a little confusing The first one simply tells sitemap to not include pages that you ‘hide’ in your sidebar menu (using the RapidWeaver page inspector) — If you do this or not is purely a matter of choice but one implication is that selecting this option means that these pages will be excledud from your HTML sitemap as well as sitemap.xml. This one is hit or miss – Some like it on, some like it off. The second option comes into play based on the disable search button under the ‘search engine’ tab — When this option is on and you specifically exclude a site from your sitemap in the search engines tab SiteMap will also insert a small snippit of code into the page itself telling any search engine who comes across this page to not index it. If you turn it off then sitemap will not insert the extra snippit of code so if a search engine happens to stumble upon sites that you excluded from your sitemap.xml it will stll index it. It’s a little hard to

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