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More options Jul 3, 3:58 am

From: JLH

Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 10:58:53 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, Jul 3 2008 3:58 am

Subject: Re: Site map show no errors, but is not being indexed

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The only insight that I can provide is that webmaster's tools
reporting of data is seriously flawed and to be ignored. There is
little connection between it and reality. Perform the site search as
I did if you really want to see how many URLs are indexed.

So you've got 12,377 pages listed in the sitemap and 22,400 indexed
yet webmasters tools reports zero. Hmmm.

On Jul 2, 12:51 pm, CNET SEO wrote:

> I apologize! I was not clear in my posting.

> We don't want the actual XML site map file to be indexed in Google's
> search results, but we do want the URLs in the XML site map (http://www.cnettv.com/9741-1_53-0.xml?...editionid_=3&_tilename_=.sit......)
> to be indexed by Google. This file was submitted on February 19,
> 2008.

> Currently, this is what Google shows us in our Webmaster Tools account
> for the sitewww.cnettv.com:

> Sitemap stats
> Total URLs: 12377
> Indexed URLs: 0

> Here is an example of a site map that did have URLs successfully
> indexed from the XML file forwww.download.com:

> Sitemap stats
> Total URLs: 98306
> Indexed URLs: 92382

> Any insight on why Google is not "discovering" our XML site map for
> CNET TV, but has indexed the others?

> Thanks!

> On Jul 2, 10:44 am, JLH wrote:

> > 22,000 pages of the site are indexed.http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=site:cnettv.com

> > Sitemaps have very little if anything to do with indexing just
> > discovery.

> > On Jul 2, 12:38 pm, CNET SEO wrote:

> > > We have uploaded a couple of site maps for our various sites, and they
> > > have been successfully indexed by Google.

> > > However, our site map forwww.cnettv.comwasuploaded4 months ago,
> > > shows no errors, but is still NOT being indexed. Is there a particular
> > > reason the site map forwww.cnettv.comisnotbeing indexed by Google?

> > > Thank you!

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