More sitemap issues: help
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Hey Guys,
Seems I'm having more sitemap issues -I just checked my WMT and find that for my com.au and com site - the com.au site is showing i only have 2 pages indexed and 72 Web Pages submitted.
The .com I look under sitemaps and it doesn't show any results as to how many pages have been indexed instead it is giving me this error warning - "Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead."
All 3 sites are listed here:
Any advice would be much appreciate here!
Thanks guys
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Hi Patrick,
Thanks for your response, all sites have sitemaps, I submitted all 3 domains below to through WMT
https://www.zenory.com.au/sitemap_us.xml
https://www.zenory.com/sitemap_au.xml
https://www.zenory.com/sitemap_nz.xml
so that they would not be overwriten all top level domains are on the same server. After this I still have no idea why they are not showing up correctly. I have limited all the cross referencing from each site to try and better defensiate each site so google could pick up that each one was relevant to the country specified. For the au it says 74 were submitted and only 2 were indexed.
Any advice around this would be awesome
Thanks in advance
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Hi there
I am not seeing sitemaps for...
https://www.zenory.com.au/sitemap.xml
https://www.zenory.co.nz/sitemap.xmlDo you have sitemaps for these sites? Have you added each as their own profile in Search Console and submitted a sitemap? Google has a resource to help diagnose problems with your sitemap - have you looked into that at all to see if Google found any errors?
Let me know if this helps! Good luck!
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Hi Oleg,
All 3 sites have the hreflang tags, they also have geo targeting set for all 3 countries, they are all index for the right countries, however the pages are indexing is quiet low considering i have submitted about 70 pages.
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Your sites wont get indexed because they are all exact duplicates of one another. Hence, Google indexes the .com but not the others.
What you need to do is link all of the websites up with a hreflang tag... this tells google that all 3 of these sites are the same, except you should display the correct domain depending on where the searcher is from.
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