Hi,

We launched our new site back in Sept 2013 and to control indexation and traffic, etc we only allowed the search engines to index single dimension pages such as just category, brand or collection but never both like category + brand, brand + collection or collection + catergory

We are now opening indexing to double faceted page like category + brand and the new tag structure would be:

For any other facet we're including a "noindex, follow" meta tag.

1. My question is if we're including a "noindex, follow" tag to select pages do we need to include a canonical or hreflang tag afterall? Should we include it either way for when we want to remove the "noindex"?

2. Is the x-default redundant?

Thanks for any input.

Cheers

WMCA

Thx Mike and we already have the HTML sitemap ready to go.

Alan - I don't know all the details but they just informed me, they were able to create them on the proper URL.

Sorry for the futile exercise but good to know either way.

Hi,

We've rebuilt our website and created a better sitemap index structure. There's a good chance that we not be able to append the XML files to existing site for technical reasons (don't get me started).

I'm reaching out because I'm wondering if can we place the XML files on another website or subdomain? I know this is not best practice and probably very grey but I'm looking for alternatives.

If there answer is DON'T DO IT let me know too.

Thx