Hello all, I just updated my sitemap and reloaded it through google's sitemap tool. A few days my indezed pages were over 300. Now it is 280. That doesn't make sense when my statistica through google say that there were 482 urls submitted successfully. There are sme important pages that are not indexed yet. Anyone have any advice? thanks so much, Joe
I have had the same thing happen in the past - then when I just stopped submitting a new sitemap the pages stayed and became more stable. It could be to do with the change frequency selected for pages - currently I am looking to try and find a sitemaps tool that works with the new sitemaps.org protocol that should mean that all pages can be identified on the last change date and that new pages can be added when a new sitemap is done (with only having to add the new pages and not having to individually altering all previous page change frequency etc).
Maybe this is just one of them google issues which drop pages then re-add them for seemingly no reason? My friend had this issue before and I know others who have also. Any updates on how things are now, Singular?
It happened with one of sites. After submitting the sitemap, the indexed pages have gone down. Yes, it could be one of those google issues.
Well, I just checked my indexed pages on Google Sitemap Webmaster tools and it says I now have 328 pages indexed. I checked them over and there are still a few very important pages that have not been indexed. Should I change the frequency from daily to weekly or does that not influence anything? Also, should I manually move the more important pages on my sitemap to the beginning? Does that factor in to the importance of the page as seen by Google? best regards, Joe
Even I have the same issue. My site resulted on top for my keywords. After submiting to SiteMap my site got un-indexed. Is it something to do with google algorithum. I want to bring it back to normal. any suggestions???
honestly you guys are barking up the wrong tree. Adding a sitemap to your site will not de-index your pages. This is the OPPOSITE of what google's purpose is for sitemaps. Could you have hit a different google datacenter perhaps? Could one of your content pages been so similar to another that google dropped it for this reason? I'd explore other causes.
If it smells like chicken........... I added a sitemap - 90% of indexed pages dropped - waited a month and removed it - all pages back in. Coincidence? Maybe. But after seeing multiple people in multiple places say the same my logic tells me to leave it off.