### Author:  [@hendry](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hendry)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 6:44am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/1 "2020-06-30T06:44:38Z")
Hi! Say I have content that looks like
```auto
content/
├── 2020
│ └── first-blog.md
└── internal-boring-do-not-index
└── ref.md
```
How do I prevent **internal-boring-do-not-index** from appearing in:
- index.xml
- sitemap.xml
- internal-boring-do-not-index/index.xml
I **don’t want to use robots.txt** because I don’t want to draw attention to this content.
Many thanks!
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### Author:  [@martignoni](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/martignoni)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/2 "2020-06-30T07:32:32Z")
I do this with a parameter in front matter:
```auto
---
title: This page will be excluded from sitemap
robotsdisallow: true
---
```
Then using such a construct in your template, e.g. `sitemap.xml`:
```auto
---
### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 7:47am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/3 "2020-06-30T07:47:09Z")
Also see
> **[Build Options](https://gohugo.io/content-management/build-options/#readout)**
>
> Build options help define how Hugo must treat a given page when building the site.
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### Author:  [@hendry](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hendry)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/4 "2020-06-30T08:49:20Z")
Really struggling to understand those confusing [build options](https://gohugo.io/content-management/build-options/#readout).
```
[hendry@t480s show]$ hugo version
Hugo Static Site Generator v0.73.0/extended linux/amd64 BuildDate: unknown
[hendry@t480s show]$ cat content/do-not/foo.md
---
title: Do no index me
_build:
render: false
list: never
publishResources: false
---
Boo!
[hendry@t480s show]$ grep do-not public/index.xml
[hendry@t480s show]$ vim public/index.xml
[hendry@t480s show]$ grep not public/index.xml
[hendry@t480s show]$ grep not public/sitemap.xml
http://example.org/do-not/
```
I’m probably better off creating a Go template.
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/5 "2020-06-30T09:04:47Z")
> [@hendry](#):
>
> ` http://example.org/do-not/`
That is not the same URL as the one you “unlisted”.
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### Author:  [@hendry](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hendry)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/6 "2020-06-30T09:57:40Z")
> [@bep](#):
>
> That is not the same URL as the one you “unlisted”.
I’m sorry, Why? Because it’s a section?
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### Author:  [@bep](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/bep)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2020, 10:20am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/7 "2020-06-30T10:20:01Z")
> [@hendry](#):
>
> I’m sorry, Why? Because it’s a section?
Because it’s not where you foot the `_build` configuration. I’m not sure how to explain it differently.
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### Author:  [@hendry](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hendry)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2020, 3:13am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/9 "2020-07-01T03:13:50Z")
Oh, so I need to use the \_index.md with \_build stanzas to exclude a section?
Did I understand correctly?
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### Author:  [@hendry](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hendry)
#### Post date: [July 2, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/10 "2020-07-02T09:40:04Z")
Thanks @martignoni … I ended up with
```auto
...
{{ range .Data.Pages -}}
{{- if or (eq .Section "services") (eq .Section "2020")}}
...
```
in my `layouts/_default/sitemap.xml`
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2020, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/do-not-index-certain-pages/26596/11 "2020-07-04T09:40:06Z")
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