How can i hide sitemap.xml from public view in godaddy

[joshibhargav_20]

Hello,

I am having Pro Managed Wordpress hosting in GoDaddy.

I want to hide my sitemap from public access. 

For example, my sitemap files are at:

https://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml

https://www.example.com/sitemap_1.xml

https://www.example.com/sitemap_2.xml

I want to hide these URLs from public viewing but it should be available to Google and should be indexed. Robots.txt should also allow the crawling. 

How can I achieve this?

Please suggest. 

[Retired]

Hi @joshibhargav_20,

read following (src stackexchange)

I don't see why a structure of a site could cause you issues with a competitor?

The point of the sitemap is to have the pages indexed, so people can find them easier, which does, to a point, has to reveal how your site is organized such as:

• /news/ contains your Articles of news
• /forum/ is where all of the forum discussions are

Those will be indexable, to gain more traffic and present information.

The folders which you don't want to have index is like

• PHP classes and functions that allow a site to work
• Site images, CSS, JavaScript folders
• Administration Panel

Then, if that is the case, then those shouldn't be in your sitemap at all. Plus you can exclude those from the indexing also.