sitemap.xml appears in google site search results

[gmeyers]

I routinely submit the sitemap.xml file generated by NOF to Google on their Webmaster site. I also use the search box feature that NOF provides with both web and site options. Many times when I search my site for a term, I see among the site search results the sitemap.xml file. Two questions:
1) Why is sitemap.xml showing up in search results?
2) We changed our site structure over a year ago and have submitted updated sitemap.xml files to Google. Yet they still crawl, and report 404 errors, for pages that no longer exist and are not in the sitemap. Why?

[gotFusion]

You should be able to exclude any file using a robots.txt file in your domain root.

More details can be found here: http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=10

As far as why and what google indexes.... That would need to be asked of google.

To avoid 404 errors you should create a 404 redirect page in your hosting control panel or redirect 404 errors via code.

[gmeyers]

You should be able to exclude any file using a robots.txt file in your domain root.

More details can be found here: http://www.gotfusion.com/tutorials/tut.cfm?itemID=10

As far as why and what google indexes.... That would need to be asked of google.

To avoid 404 errors you should create a 404 redirect page in your hosting control panel or redirect 404 errors via code.

I already have this robots.txt file in my home page:
Sitemap: http://www.berkeleyandbeyond.com/sitemap.xml

[gotFusion]

You need to properly format your robots txt file to disallow spiders from indexing the page

http://www.berkeleyandbeyond.com/robots.txt

[gmeyers]

You need to properly format your robots txt file to disallow spiders from indexing the page

http://www.berkeleyandbeyond.com/robots.txt

It looks like that file gets updated whenever I publish. I manually changed it to use the correct format, but after publishing my changes were overridden. How can I set the robots.txt file within the NOF UI?

[SolarLightCap]

You can add robotos.txt to your assets to always publidh it. I have not, BUT....

Okay this is weird - I just noticed NOF 2015 is uploading a robots.txt file - overwritting my correct file with a one line file pointing to the sitemap. I didnt ask or want NOF to do that, although I do want it to publish the sitemap.xml
Does turning on publish sitemap also publish the robots.txt file?