: New site - 0 indexed 5 Not selected. What does this mean? Having finally completed my web site, I submitted it and a sitemap to Google at the beginning of December. A look at the index

@Ogunnowo487

Your site is certainly indexed, site:www.holiday-home.uk.com returns results. Note that it is the www version of your site that is indexed, and this is the URL that should be referenced in GWT. It looks like you have probably linked the bare domain (holiday-home.uk.com) in GWT instead (which is not indexed).

But... the bare domain is also accessible. eg. holiday-home.uk.com and holiday-home.uk.com both return the same page (this could be perceived as duplicate content - only one of which will be indexed). Ideally you should be redirecting from one to the other (or specify the preference in GWT - but this only benefits Google). If you prefer the www subdomain then set up a 301 redirect from non-www requests to
Also, both holiday-home.uk.com/ and holiday-home.uk.com/index.html refer to the same page. These are strictly speaking two different URLs and consequently they could be seen as duplicate. It is preferable to not show the directory index document ie. index.html in the URL. Either redirect (careful to avoid a redirect loop) or set a canonical meta tag.

Your XML sitemap includes www in all URLs except one: holiday-home.uk.com/accommodation.html

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