How accurate are the index figures in GWT?
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I've been looking at a site in GWT and the number of indexed urls is very low when compared with the number or submitted urls on the xml sitemaps.
The site has several stores which are all submitted using different sitemaps.
When you perform a search in Google, eg
site:domain.com/store1
site:domain.com/store2
site:domain.com/store3
The results are similar to the webmaster urls.
However, looking in the analytics for landing pages used for organic traffic from Google shows a much higher number of pages.
If these pages aren't indexed as reported in GMT, how could they be found in the results and be recorded as landing pages?
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Why are you using more than 1 site map per domain?
the answer could be so many things but I think it's this you're using more than one site map per domain Google gets confused and does not index your entire website.
Your server could be too slow if it's e-commerce are probably not speeding up your site fast enough to have Google actually index the links properly. Remember the faster your website the deeper Google goes when indexing the site.
E-commerce sites with more than one site map on possibly slow hosting it sounds about right that Google would not actually index every single one of the pages that you have submitted over and over again.
Clear out the multiple sign-ups then pick a single site map if you're using plug-ins choose just one if you're using generated choose just one.
Add it to your website remove the other site maps then submit the site map to Google webmaster tools when it says index this one page or all pick all and if that doesn't work you can use fetch with the Google bot to get your individual webpages crawled then have them submitted by hand.
I would use a content delivery network if you're using e-commerce make sure your site speed is fast.
Check out your site speed using this http://www.webpagetest.org/
then use the tool below to figure out why and what you can do about it.
http://torbit.com/site-optimizer/
I strongly suggest you invest in a content delivery network
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