Not All Submitted URLs in Sitemap Get Indexed
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Hey Guys,
I just recognized, that of about 20% of my submitted URL's within the sitemap don't get indexed, at least when I check in the webmaster tools. There is of about 20% difference between the submitted and indexed URLs. However, as far as I can see I don't get within webmaster tools the information, which specific URLs are not indexed from the sitemap, right?
Therefore I checked every single page in the sitemap manually by putting site:"URL" into google and every single page of the sitemap shows up. So in reality every page should be indexed, but why does webmaster tools shows something different?
Thanks for your help on this
Cheers
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Thanks Dan, but I have registered the right URL (http).
However today I have again 100% indexed from the submitted URLs (changed nothing). Really Crazy.
Cheers,
Heiko
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This can happen if you don't have the correct version of your URL registered in webmaster tools, so something to check
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Hi There
One thing to check - do you have the exact version of domain registered in webmaster tools? So www or non-www and http or httpS? This has to be exact, webmaster tools considers them all different sites and you can get limited data if the wrong one is registered.
That would be the biggest cause of discrepancy. If this is not the case, there are many times Webmaster Tools data can lag behind, or be different than the index. I would go with what you see in actual Google searches though as the "final answer".
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I get the same thing. Nobody on here seems to know the answer (I asked a similar question in the last week or so) - if the pages are there when you do a manual search then I wouldn't sweat it. I have taken the view that it's not worth worrying about!
Good luck Amelia
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I didn't change the sitemap in the last 4 months. At the beginning the numbers match exactly, so submitted and indexed URLs where the same. But this week I recognized, that now of about 20% are not indexed any more. So I already got confused, but the manual check showed that everything is ok.
However, I just would like to know, why there is this difference in webmaster tools....
Cheers
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this is clear, but has nothing to do with my original question. I just wanted to know why webmaster tools doesn't display the right number of indexed pages from the sitemap. It would just be the easiest way to recognize when some pages will get de-indexed for whatever reason.
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Hi there
This is pretty common. Google sometimes shows varying numbers in Webmaster Tools and what actually appears in the index. When did you submit your sitemap?
Here are some reasons that Google may not index all of your pages.
Check your robots.txt to be sure, but give yourself a bit of time for the indexing number in WMT to update. The good news is that you are seeing your pages in search - so that's a positive.
I would also check to see if you have any duplicate or thin content on the website, dynamic URLs in your sitemap, check how deep your pages go (this is especially important due to crawl budgets), and also your website's canonical tag situation.
These are some things I would look into. Hope this helps! Good luck!
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sitemap does not ensure you are in the index. they just inform the search engine about your site.
in fact Bing suggest you only put hidden pages and important pages in sitemap.
IMO they are overrated unless you have something special to inform them of, or a very large site , they will find it crawling your site normaly
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