: Why is there a difference between urls submitted to a sitemap and urls in the google index? The crawl report shows this: "HTTP ‎(1)‎ In Sitemaps ‎(5)‎ Not found ‎(993)‎ Restricted

@XinRu657

The difference lies in Google's priorities: you may have pages in your sitemap, however, for whatever reason (be it lack of incoming links to deep content, lack of in-site links, delays in posting back index data, et cetera) Google either doesn't have the content indexed or isn't showing you what's actually indexed.


We're aware that we sometimes return
erroneous estimates for the number of
results that return for a query, and
we're working to improve these
estimates.


Features: Incorrect search results count

Given that Google doesn't make it a priority to show you exactly how many pages are in its index for a given search, I'd say it's just a matter of Google failing to show you an accurate picture of its index.

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@Jamie184

I think it is simply that Google does not necessarily index all the URLs submitted. The submitted sitemap is advisory, it is then up to the Search Engines to determine whether those URLs should be (or are worthy to be) indexed.

Or, may be Google just hasn't gotten round to checking/indexing those other pages yet? By look of your screenshot you only submitted the Sitemap today?!

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