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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

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

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

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.

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