Hi I have a travel blog which is barely a year old, and although I do have some traffic it is not what I think it should be. Anyhow, I realized a couple of days ago that out of the 465 pages sent with the XML sitemap to google only 165 have been indexed. Can anyone tell me why, and how can I get google to index the rest? My blog is about travel, it is all my own content and experiences around the world, with pictures and more. I use wordpress, the XML Sitemap Generator Plugin to create the sitemap, and other for SEO practices too. My blog is www.maitravelsite.com, and the url to the sitemap is http://www.maitravelsite.com/sitemap.xml Any help you can give me will be very much appreciated. Thanks
Nice site you got there. I am not an expect... but just found something that might be the reason why other pages haven't been indexed. Some pages do not have enough content to be indexed and few videos is not available as well. You can check your pages one by one and see what is the difference of your indexed pages to non-indexed pages. Hope this helps...
Thanks very much for the reply. I would have thought that all the blog articles have enough content, but if there is a minimum required (which I did not know) it could well be. Thanks for pointing out the videos that are not there! I didn't know that, will have to do a 1 by 1 check as you say... Thanks. Any more opinions?