diff --git a/xmlsitemap.admin.inc b/xmlsitemap.admin.inc
index 47a58e2755fc750f7f7ce9eece7c64cbe4070576..199c51e7ad2abbc10f6de307fc4ecb668bea5388 100644
--- a/xmlsitemap.admin.inc
+++ b/xmlsitemap.admin.inc
@@ -318,7 +318,15 @@ function xmlsitemap_settings_form($form, &$form_state) {
     '#description' => t('When enabled, this will add all sitemaps to the robots.txt generated by <a href="@drupal-robotstxt">the RobotsTxt</a>.', array('@drupal-robotstxt' => 'https://www.drupal.org/project/robotstxt')),
     '#default_value' => variable_get('xmlsitemap_robotstxt', 1),
   );
-
+  // Allow to skip pages that might have 301 redirect set.
+  if (module_exists('redirect')) {
+    $form['xmlsitemap_redirect'] = array(
+      '#type' => 'checkbox',
+      '#title' => t('Skip pages that have 301 redirects set.'),
+      '#description' => t('Prevents pages which are 301 redirects to be saved in sitemap.'),
+      '#default_value' => variable_get('xmlsitemap_redirect', 0),
+      );
+  }
   $form['advanced'] = array(
     '#type' => 'fieldset',
     '#title' => t('Advanced settings'),
diff --git a/xmlsitemap.generate.inc b/xmlsitemap.generate.inc
index 0bc42d184e933b8b2c730d16010eaa1fdf39b5e7..31aa566bef08e44cb2386678073680e996f71fc4 100644
--- a/xmlsitemap.generate.inc
+++ b/xmlsitemap.generate.inc
@@ -207,6 +207,15 @@ function xmlsitemap_generate_chunk(stdClass $sitemap, XMLSitemapWriter $writer,
   while ($link = $links->fetchAssoc()) {
     $link['language'] = $link['language'] != LANGUAGE_NONE ? xmlsitemap_language_load($link['language']) : $url_options['language'];
     $parsed_url = drupal_parse_url($link['loc']);
+    // Skip nodes which are 301 redirected.
+    if (variable_get('xmlsitemap_redirect')) {
+      $relative_redirect = redirect_fetch_rids_by_path($link['loc'], $link['language']->language, TRUE);
+      $alias_redirect = redirect_fetch_rids_by_path(ltrim(url($link['loc']), '/'), $link['language']->language, TRUE);
+      // If node contains a 301 redirect we skip it.
+      if (!empty($relative_redirect) || !empty($alias_redirect)) {
+        continue;
+      }
+    }
     // Remove query or fragment.
     $link['loc'] = $parsed_url['path'];
     if ($url_options['alias']) {