Sitemap at Google Stuck on Stupid!

Hi,
Have you had any luck with this? I’ve been battling the same “pending” Sitemap issue..

Thanks,

@aapvelectronics:

Not much, none here, just some happy talk. Tried Google, nothing there. No one can actually answer it, the answer is always a non-answer.

Indexing non-existent. One new page in last month. It took pending to fall off over 3 weeks. The only way I’m getting a crawl is when I write a post and place it on my Google + page, that seems to generate a visit from their bot, otherwise dead.

I have a much bigger site (>4K pages) also. It crawled, indexed 1568 pages and nothing since then – over 1 month.

I also switched to “All-In-One-SEO plugin since the one pertaining to this post – google sitemap generator, hasn’t had an update for 11+ months and seems to no longer have support.

I am having this same issue on a Go Daddy Managed WordPress site… I wonder if Go Daddy is somehow blocking this crawl?

I’ve gotten a little action – a whole 3 new pages indexed. I went back over my All-in-One-SEO plugin and made sure my Robot.txt was ok, it was and that I’m not setting for noindex on pages I want indexed.

One thing I noticed in Google webmaster tools/search console is the colored graph (red/blue) shows less indexing than digging deeper. Make sure you look at your index status.

In your left sidebar click Google Index –>>Index Status. My indexing is higher. To double check do a Google Search – site:yourdomain.com. The total number of indexed site should match what you crawled what you found in index status. Also, this method will help specifically identify pages/posts indexed where you might discover something you want out of the index. Then use Google URL remove at Google Index –>> Remove URLs.

You will also have to double check your sitemap plugin settings to ensure it’s set up properly and not indexing pages/posts unnecessary such as a privacy policy, etc.

Also, remember the plugin for this site is not being supported or updated. Between the Yoast plugin and All-In-One-SEO I have found through varied testing that All-In-One-SEO is the better choice. It’s updated frequently and threads will be answered promptly by the plugin author. I went to the paid version and support is very fast.