Google Webmaster Tools is showing wrong data - help?
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Hey all,
I'm seeing some weird problems with Webmaster Tools. Specifically:
- We've submitted a sitemap with 174k URLs. According to the WMT dashboard, only 21 are indexed, though if you search our site via site:sitename.com blah blah, there are thousands of pages returned. Why is WMT only showing 21 indexed pages?
- Yet if I go to Health -> Index Status, it's showing nearly 199k URLs indexed. This seems consistent with searching Google site:sitename.com blah blah.
- Under "Search Queries", it's showing "no data available". Not sure why as it's linked to the proper Google Analytics account, which has keyword data.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here?
Thanks.
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Thanks Zachary.
First off, how long ago was the site verified with WMT and how long ago did you submit the sitemap?
The sitemap was submitted at the end of August and verified around the same time.
It's clearly indexed at the search returns thousands of pages - I'm just wondering the why GMT dashboard is telling me it's not indexed, while Google search and Health -> Index Status is showing me that it is.
Also, as far as search queries, it could take months for that to really show useful data, at least in my experience.
I'd expect that queries would display here at the same time as they do in Google Analytics. Is that expectation wrong?
Thanks for your help!
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There cold be a number of issues with this. First off, how long ago was the site verified with WMT and how long ago did you submit the sitemap?
It could be just a thing that it takes time for Google to index your site, It will take even longer if there are less links to your site.
Also, as far as search queries, it could take months for that to really show useful data, at least in my experience.
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