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TheSquareFoot last edited by

We just submitted a new sitemap to google for our new rails app -

http://www.thesquarefoot.com/sitemap.xml

Which has over 1,400 pages, however Google is only seeing 114. About 1,200 are in the listings folder / 250 blog posts / and 15 landing pages.

Any help would be appreciated!

Aron

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Copstead last edited by

It doesn't appear to be validating correctly.

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html

Change this:

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MattJanaway last edited by

When did you submit it? Sometimes it just takes a little time to crawl.
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