` value** if it’s consistently and verifiably (for example by comparing to the last modification of the page) accurate.
* * *
Google _really_ keeps track and makes a difference of where it knows about urls from:
“All submitted pages” (sitemap) or “All known pages” (links etc.)
See [Google Search Console → Index → Coverage Report](https://search.google.com/search-console/index?hl=en)
- “A sitemap is an important way for Google to discover URLs on your site.” [see](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/ask-google-to-recrawl#sitemap)
- “Google chooses the canonical page based on a number of factors (or _signals_ ), such as […], presence of the URL in a sitemap, […].” [see](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/consolidate-duplicate-urls?hl=en#how-googlebot-indexes-and-chooses-the-canonical-url)
- “Using a sitemap doesn’t guarantee that all the items in your sitemap will be crawled and indexed, as Google processes rely on complex algorithms to schedule crawling.” [see](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/overview?hl=en#do-i-need-a-sitemap)
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### Author:  [@mstm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mstm)
#### Post date: [3 באפריל, 2022, 10:26am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/7 "2022-04-03T10:26:43Z")
> [@rrit](#):
>
> The #sitemap plugin does not include any `?page=…` urls in **default** sitemaps e.g.
I hope it will be implemented along with this 🙂
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sitemap/pull/34](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-sitemap/pull/34)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [4 באפריל, 2022, 5:24am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/8 "2022-04-04T05:24:11Z")
This is certainly something for @Roman to keep in mind when he integrates this into core.
I much prefer first merging in sitemap prior to layering more changes, but once that is done … maybe we can start with canonical page based urls on \_recent. We have canonical url now which is usable in `posts.rss` with adequate caching it can also be usable in sitemaps.
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [18 באוקטובר, 2023, 6:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/10 "2023-10-18T06:38:44Z")
I’m having trouble with Google Search Console trying to index URLs like `https://example.com/t/title-slug/1234?page=3` , which make Discourse throw a 404. Removing the `?page=x` parameter makes the URL valid.
I assume this is some kind of a side effect of Discourse adding pagination to the version of the site that it serves crawlers:
> [@?page= bug, both in core and in sitemap plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/page-bug-both-in-core-and-in-sitemap-plugin/191719/1):
>
> As soon as a topic has 18 posts, the `sitemap_recent.xml` starts showing a URL with a page number `https://forum.example.com/t/slug/123?page=2`
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [18 באוקטובר, 2023, 7:06am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/11 "2023-10-18T07:06:11Z")
page urls work fine, you just need more than N posts.
Do you happen to have a ton of deleted posts on said topic?
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [18 באוקטובר, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/12 "2023-10-18T13:47:55Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> Do you happen to have a ton of deleted posts on said topic?
Hi Sam, thanks for the reply. After posting this I found your explanation here:
> [@Googlebot 404 errors due to page numbers](https://meta.discourse.org/t/googlebot-404-errors-due-to-page-numbers/96337/9):
>
> That topic was split so you destabilized the page number, it is a fundamental limitation with our numbering implementation Take a book analogy, in a book if you rip out page 77, page 200 remains page 200. In Discourse page 200 becomes page 199 I guess, maybe it does make sense to auto redirect high page numbers back to last page.
But in my case, no, the topics with this problem that I’ve looked at don’t show any modifications to the original threading. The only thing is that they were imported from Drupal. But I need to dig more into other examples to see if any topics that were originally created in Discourse are also affected, because unfortunately there are _tons_ of them, as in thousands probably.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [18 באוקטובר, 2023, 10:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/13 "2023-10-18T22:41:56Z")
Yikes, were tons imported from Drupal? Is that the common thread here?
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### Author:  [@rahim123](https://meta.discourse.org/u/rahim123)
#### Post date: [18 באוקטובר, 2023, 10:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sitemap-plugin-no-page-urls-in-default-sitemap/220283/14 "2023-10-18T22:44:18Z")
Yeah, close to 100k topics and ~2M posts. I’m not sure if this issue is only with imported topics though, I’ll post back here soon if I find any more anomalies.