Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi

Message Too Old, No Replies

Sitemap Submission Pending in GWT - Forever

         

netmeg

1:51 pm on Jun 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



What (if anything) should I make of situations where I submit a sitemap to GWT (testing it first to make sure there's no errors) and it just lists as "pending" for days / weeks / months? This has happened on more than one site. Note that all the sites are fully indexed, ranking wonderfully, no traffic issues. And GWT appears to be coming to look at the sitemap every day. New pages are going in fine. But the sitemap status stays "pending" even if I remove it and re-submit it.

Just another bug in GWT?

not2easy

4:22 pm on Jun 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



I've seen that too, when it happens I click on the "Test Sitemap" link if I want to be sure they've noticed and then let them worry about it. The interface doesn't update very quickly.

netmeg

5:17 pm on Jun 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



I have some that go back to March.

not2easy

7:40 pm on Jun 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Administrator 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



That would worry me, too. Why aren't they accessing it regularly? Do you see in your logs when they request the file, or other sitemaps on that site? Have you verified the robots.txt? (dumb questions, I realize - just looking at what I'd check into) In the Crawl Errors part of GWT are there any hints? The GWT interface is slow to update things, but not that slow.

netmeg

9:27 pm on Jun 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member Top Contributors Of The Month



Yup yup yup, and the sites are performing fine. But GWT marks the sitemap as pending and claims that no pages are indexed.

It's weird.