Indexed wrong URL

[keithliu]

Hi, I have problem to use the standalone xml sitemaps recently (it were fine before). Our Website has many URLS in this format:

    http://<domain name>/categories.php?category=Bamboo&topcat1=Bamboo&subvar5=WOMEN&subvar5v=1

But they look like below in the sitemap.xml after crawling -- category value disappeared! :

    http://<domain name>/categories.php?category=&topcat1=Bamboo&subvar5=WOMEN&subvar5v=1

Thereby these URLs were not further crawled and number of indexed URLs in sitemap.xml has greatly reduced.

However, these URLs were indexed correctly when I use the online free version.

I appreciate your help and comment

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

could you please PM me your generator URL and an example URL that is not included in sitemap and how it can be reached starting from homepage? https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/contact.html

[keithliu]

I got "You are not allowed to send personal messages." when I tried to send you PM. I have sent you an email (contact@xml-sitemaps.com) instead.

Thank you so much

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

you have incorrect canonical meta tags on your pages, for instance on [ External links are visible to logged in users only ] page it's set to:
<link rel="canonical" href="[ External links are visible to logged in users only ]" />

You should either correct your canocical tags (which is better), or disable canonical urls support in generator configuration.

[keithliu]

yes, that's why and it works now! Thank you so much!