Sitemap all of a sudden only indexing 2 out of 5000+ pages

[rock22]

Any ideas why this happened?  Our sitemap looks the same.  Also, our total number of pages indexed has not decreased, just the sitemap.  Could this eventually affect my pages being in the index?

[KeriMorgret]

Can you tell us where you're seeing this? Is it in Google Webmaster Tools, Bing Webmaster Tools, SEOmoz, etc?

[GeorgeDavis]

Without seeing the site it is pretty tough to correctly answer this question.

What is telling you there are only 2 out of 5000+ pages being indexed?  Webmaster tools?

[Mike.Goracke]

In Google Webmaster Tools, look under Optimization > Sitemaps and see if Google identified any issues with your sitemap. You should also check under Health > Crawl Errors to see if Google had problems crawling your site.

So, if you have 2 pages working in your sitemap, and one of those is the homepage or links back to the homepage, Google "should" be able to crawl your entire website if your linking structure is set up correctly; however, I would still look into your sitemap issues, because that is rather odd.

Hope this helps.

Mike

[rock22]

Sorry, this info came from Google Webmaster Tools.  It is saying there are no crawl errors yet only two pages are being indexed.  There are no more crawl errors than usual.

[rock22]

Also, I would be glad to send a link to our sitemap via pm if that helps.