: There can be quite a lag between google initially reading your content and it appearing in the index. We recently re-launched a site, submitting sitemaps to google on launch, and it took approx

There can be quite a lag between google initially reading your content and it appearing in the index. We recently re-launched a site, submitting sitemaps to google on launch, and it took approx 3 weeks for the new pages to start showing up in search results.

How long ago did you submit these PDFs via your sitemap?

(except for the five that are indexed)

It sounds like your PDFs are being indexed, but it's taking some time. Presuming that there's no difference in the way the non-indexed PDFs have been generated, then I'd suspect it's just the index taking a while to update.

On a slight tangent, one useful tool that I'd recommend signing up for is Google Webmaster - it shows you the crawl rate, problems with your site, sitemaps and indexing within a day or so of the Googlebot hitting your site. It could save you a bit of time going through your IIS logs.

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