<p>A Section only appear in Content SEO if it has public URLs. If it has public URLs, that means that Google and users will be able to find it eventually.</p>

<p>There is a setting to disable the sitemap for a section via Content SEO, however.</p>

<p>Can you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish?</p>

<p>Also we got into detail on sitemaps for a while on the <a href="https://devMode.fm/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">devMode.fm</a> episode <a href="https://devmode.fm/episodes/web-developers-you-dont-know-seo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SEO for Web Developers: The Silence of the Chickens</a> which might be useful to you.</p>

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2019-04-08T12:41:15.957Z
andrew.welch
<p>I would like to "hide" Certain Pages or entries from the Content SEO Section as they are never seen by the end user and are not used in the XML sitemap. Is there a way to do this ?</p>

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I want to exclude certain URLs from the sitemap, depending on the custom field settings in their corresponding entries. Is that possible ?
Thangaraj Moorthi
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Is it possible to hide certain entries in the Content SEO section of SEO Matic?
# Is it possible to hide certain entries in the Content SEO section of SEO Matic?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2019-04-08)

I would like to "hide" Certain Pages or entries from the Content SEO Section as they are never seen by the end user and are not used in the XML sitemap. Is there a way to do this ?

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> **username_1**: I want to exclude certain URLs from the sitemap, depending on the custom field settings in their corresponding entries. Is that possible ?  

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### Answer by username_2 on 2019-04-08. Score: 2

A Section only appear in Content SEO if it has public URLs. If it has public URLs, that means that Google and users will be able to find it eventually.

There is a setting to disable the sitemap for a section via Content SEO, however.

Can you elaborate on what you're trying to accomplish?

Also we got into detail on sitemaps for a while on the [devMode.fm](https://devMode.fm/) episode [SEO for Web Developers: The Silence of the Chickens](https://devmode.fm/episodes/web-developers-you-dont-know-seo) which might be useful to you.


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