: Search Console shows 343 web pages submitted but only 132 indexed My Search Console (Webmaster Tools) account shows 343 web pages submitted but only 132 indexed. The actual number of posts on

@Lee4591628

Since you're in WordPress, I guess you have a plugin creating your sitemap for you. Depending on which plugin it may be including Category & Tag pages in the sitemap too, which usually isn't necessary.



Some plugins, like "WordPress SEO by Yoast", also include users/authors in the sitemap unless disabled.



If you try disabling these (again, depending on your plugin) then you'll have a cleaner sitemap with fewer, more relevant pages listed. That help get those pages indexed.

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@Shelley277

I had the same issue after changing my website CMS. But I did nothing. :)

Just keep your website clean and follow Google SEO guide. Google will update their Google Webmaster report after 1-2 months.

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@Nickens628

Ok, my math tells me this:

132 indexed pages
+ 179 not found errors
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= 311 total pages I counted

343 pages you say
- 311 officially counted pages
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= 32 pages remain


So this tells me that there is something going on with 32 pages that are causing them not to be indexed. Could they be pages redirecting to other pages? could it be other errors such as internal server error?

What you need to do is go over your sitemap again and remove URLs that do not return an actual web page, and make sure you have 138 valid URLs listed (1 for each post) along with other URLs that point to actual webpages.

Once you resubmit your sitemap, wait another couple of days. While you wait, go through the errors google shows you, so you know what URLs do and do not exist.

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