: Too much delay for indexing Sitemap in Webmaster Tools? I know that Google don’t guarantee for indexing every single web page, but I need some clarification about that, because most of the

@Kaufman445

Try to make your URLs clean first and then submit the sitemap including same URLs and try to put sitemap on root of website where index.php file is located , also use robots.txt to skip unwanted files or directories.

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@Tiffany637

You have the incorrect URLs in your sitemap.xml files. The URLs you list in the sitemap are actually being 301 redirected to different URLs.

e.g:

The link you posted: www.proboxinggear.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=28
is 301 redirecting to: www.proboxinggear.com/store/amber-heavybag-stand-with-adjustable-speedbag-platform-p-28.html
This is why Google is only reporting that a small amount of URLs listed are indexed. If you search for the redirected URLs they are indexed in Google:
Example here

You need to re-create your sitemap files and include only live URLs, not redirected URLs.

Also your robots.txt file is incorrect, you have missed out the user agent (as pointed out in the screen shot from Webmaster Tools).

It should look like:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /store-o

Sitemap: www.proboxinggear.com/store/sitemaps.xml

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