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My site is samhillbands.com
If I search “Book a band in Charlottesville” - This page is returned #1 out of 427,000
https://www.samhillbands.com/bands-by-location/Charlottesville-VA
However if I search "Book a band in Atlanta" -
I do have a result on page 1 out of 16,700,000
https://www.samhillbands.com/bands/retreat-band
But the corresponding /bands-by-location/ page is nowhere to be found:
https://www.samhillbands.com/bands-by-location/Atlanta-GA
Thoughts on what I can do?
This is our primary sitemap https://www.samhillbands.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml
We have a about 750 location based URL's that aren't currently linked anywhere on the site.
https://www.samhillbands.com/sitemaps/locations.xml
Google is indexing most of the URL because we submitted the locations sitemap directly for indexing.
Thoughts on that? Should we just create a page that contains all of the location links and make it live on the site?
Should we remove the locations sitemap from separate indexing...because of duplicate content?
| # |  Sitemap |
Type | Processed | Issues | Items | Submitted | Indexed | ||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | |
| 1 | /sitemaps/locations.xml | Sitemap | May 10, 2016 | - | Web | 771 | 648 | ||
| 2 | /sitemaps/sitemap.xml | Sitemap index | May 8, 2016 | - | Web | 862 | 730 |
site:samhillbands.com/bands-by-location/
says about 809 results for /bands-by-location/
Webmaster tools says 730 out of 862 submitted.
Is there any value to manually submitting the URLS that are on my sitemap but not being indexed?
If it's been a couple of weeks, should I manually submit the URLS's that haven't been indexed?
It's hard to say...our number of pages indexed was climbing, and I checked today and now it says my sitemap is pending?
Thanks for the response.
I have submitted my MAIN sitemap and the sumitted my LOCATION map seperatly.
All pages are set to index at the robots.txt level.
I have submitted some individual LOCATION pages and they are being indexed.
Thoughts?
I am getting that number from search console:
| # | Sitemap |
Type | Processed | Issues | Items | Submitted | Indexed | ||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | |
| 1 | /sitemaps/locations.xml | Sitemap | Apr 25, 2016 | - | Web | 771 | 15 | ||
| 2 | /sitemaps/sitemap.xml | Sitemap index | Apr 25, 2016 | - | Web | 862 | 103 |
We have 700 city pages on our site. We submitted to google via a https://www.samhillbands.com/sitemaps/locations.xml but they only indexed 15 so far.
Yes the content is similar on all of the pages...thought on getting them to index the remaining pages?
Google has crawled and indexed my new site, but my old URLS appear in the search results. Is there a typical amount of time that it takes for Google to update the URL's displayed in search results?
Thanks...I asked Google directly in a Chat session...but would rather look here. Seems like their chat team is made of people that know a little about every Google product. They said only 1 entry.
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Sorry forgot...here is an example section. Any other edit suggestions?
<urlset xmlns="<a href=" http:="" www.sitemaps.org="" schemas="" sitemap="" 0.9"="">http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"></urlset>
<loc>/bands-by-location/Charlottesville-VA</loc>
<lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod>
<loc>/bands-by-location/Lynchburg-VA</loc>
<lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod>
<loc>/bands-by-location/Lexington-VA</loc>
<lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod>
<loc>/bands-by-location/Homestead-Resort-VA</loc>
<lastmod>2014-05-02T22:47:30+00:00</lastmod>
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