Whether you still have to create XML sitemaps manually or you use a plugin tool like Yoast that automatically creates your XML, it can be rather easy to omit the pages you don’t want indexed from your sitemap.
In Yoast, it is simply the click of a button under
each of the various taxonomies and page types in the settings section.As for a manual build, simply do not include the URLs you don’t want in the file you are creating. Be sure to add a ‘noindex’ tag to the pages you phone number lead are excluding to ensure they are not found. Just because you didn’t include the page in the XML doesn’t mean a crawl bot can’t find them!
Submit Your Sitemap for Indexing
Once you’ve made all the adjustments you wish to your XML sitemap, (and setup and verified your GSC account) it is time to submit that bad boy for indexing! Navigate to the Sitemaps section of GSC and hit ‘Submit’! Your sitemap will likely go into ‘Pending’ status but in a short time (sometimes hours, sometimes days) you’ll start to see what Google, and therefore the world, is seeing of your website.