I have 7 years old e-commerce site with lots of pages indexed. However, I recently added sitemap and it almost a week since then. I see that google accessed the sitemap, but the stats say that zero indexes from sitemap. I am scared that it may remove my already indexes pages. Is it normal or I am missing something here. Thanks
Google might have accessed ur sitemap and analyzing the same before giving complete data. Just wait for another 2-3 days and if you wouldn't get the desired results, contact Google team with the details. all the best!
It's just a matter of time when they include your indexed pages into their search results. Google filters all the pages and they won't guarantee that every pages in your sitemap will be included into their index.
You can not trust the indexed urls in webmaster tools. The linked article proves that "indexed" has no correlation to actually indexed URLs in Google. Personally I believe it means URLs in sitemap "verified to be indexed" by Google Webmaster Tools.
Reading the replies it appears that there is some problem with googles sitemaps as I to have a prob with it. Monker
There seems to be no real relation between what Google Web Master Tools regards as indexed and what is really indexed, e.g. using site:yourdomain.com. For one of my sites WMT has reported 0 URLs in the index for more than three weeks now, even though site: shows that that isn't so. For my Blogger blog WMT started reporting some sitemap URLs as indexed after one or two weeks, but the count is still lagging behind what's really in Google. Maybe we should file a bug report with the big G
If you read the article I linked earlier, you can see it most likely means URLs in sitemap "verified to be indexed".... Since as others also have stated... It can absolutely not be indexed URLs (the article also proves this through a simple test anyone can make). I don't know how many support questions I have received because of this )
I believe this is true. But since you mentioned that your site is 7 years old and I supposed it must have already built a solid foundation. I read somewhere that the more linkback you got the faster it is for google to crawl or index your site. However, I got a 3 day old blog and when I submitted a sitemap to google it was indexed within a couple of days if not hours. My two week old blog with about 2 or 3 posts was indexed in just an hour or so but I think it was due to the fact that it was connected with an article I wrote on ezine. Try resubmitting a sitemap. It might do the trick.
Don't use the Google Webmaster tool to find how many pages Google had indexed. I was concerned about this as well and had posted a concern in the Google Webmaster Help Forum. I was advised to ignore that count and search for my site on Google instead (site:abc.com) and see the number of results it threw up. The count in my Webmaster Tool was 2, in Google results it was 240+.