Redirects get included in sitemap, but they have "noindex, follow" metatag

[komor72]

Hello again. :) Just found another side-effect. Redirects created in config.rb like:

redirect 'tags/peperoni.html', to: 'tags/pepperoni.html'

do get included in sitemap (which is probably fine?), but the Middleman includes a "noindex, follow" metatag in generated HTML code:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />

which is being considered as an error by Google Search. Anybody has an opinion on which is better: disable redirects being added to sitemap, or changing the Middleman template HTML-code for redirects? Or create a new config option in middleman-search_engine_sitemap?

[komor72]

A workaround for this behavious can be easily implemented using the exclude_if option:

activate :search_engine_sitemap, default_change_frequency: "weekly", exclude_if: ->(resource) {
  resource.source_file.nil?
}

The reason is that dynamically generated redirects have no source_file attributes (proxies do have source_file set to proxy template source file). If you guys think this is enough, then we can close this issue. But maybe it would helpful to think, what's right.

[Aupajo]

Hey, sorry @komor72. I'm not maintaining this any more. It's been a few years since I used it myself, and I've lost touch with what's happening inside the Middleman codebase.