blocked links in sitemap

Question

i'm using a online sitemap generator tool which generates links even for which are blocked in robots.txt. Is these blocked links affect site ranking ? . Is there anyway to overcome it ?

Answer 1

If you have made a robots.txt file that blocks the pages, it shouldn't affect your ranking.

Answer 2

Have you tried emailing the developer of the sitemaps tool you use? Maybe they can help you, so the tool obeys your robots.txt file