Having Problems to Index all URLs on Sitemap
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Hi all again ! Thanks in advance ! My client's site is having problems to index all its pages. I even bought the full extension of XML Sitemaps and the number of urls increased, but we still have problems to index all of them.
What are the reasons? The robots.txt is open for all robots, we only prohibit users and spiders to enter our Intranet. I've read that duplicate content and 404's can be the reason. Anything else?
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Like already answered above it's quite hard to get to the 100% indexation rate for your webpages. What's your current indexation rate? If it's below 90% you might still have some issues somewhere.
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Hi there
According to Google:
"...we don't guarantee that we'll crawl all of the pages of a particular site. Google doesn't crawl all the pages on the web, and we don't index all the pages we crawl. It's perfectly normal for not all the pages on a site to be indexed."
Google also provides tips and resources to help your site being indexed properly and, possibly, more fully. You can check that resource out here. Kissmetrics has a few other tips.
To Andy's point, Google indexes what it wants - don't be discouraged if your entire site isn't indexed in WMT. If you know how many pages are on your site (which you definitely should), I would try the "site:" function and get a better idea of what actually is indexed in Google.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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I have yet to see Google index every page of a site. They tend not to index pages that they don't think meet the criteria, so unless it was something like 90% weren't being indexed, I wouldn't worry about it. There are so many reasons that Google won't index a page.
You will also find that over time, if Google attributes more trust to the site, that more pages will be indexed.
Of course, you can do things to improve your changes, such as making sure Google can crawl all pages, check to see there are no bottlenecks anywhere and the big one - make sure your content is amazing. As long as the site is the best it can be, over time the number of indexed pages will increase.
Remember - the sitemap is not a guarantee that pages will be indexed. It just helps Google crawl your site.
-Andy
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