Why would Google not index all submitted pages?
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On Google Search console we see that many of our submitted pages weren't indexed. What could be the reasons?
| Web pages |
| 130,030 Submitted |
| 87,462 Indexed | -
Did you submit a nested xml sitemap? What you could do is segment your sitemaps based on categories then you could see if there are: no index tags, robots.txt blocking a section or maybe those pages are too deep.
For now I would check to see if anything has a no index tag and review your robots.txt file.
Hope that helps some.
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