Why is our sitemap not being indexed on Webmaster Tools?

[jid]

Hi there,

We have been having a problem with one of our websites.  It appears as though someone has stolen our template and used it for themselves, but in the process also stole our analytics information.  We have problems with the analytics, but are fixing that ourselves.  The problem we have now is that when we tried to put in a sitemap into Google Webmaster Tools the URLs are submitted but have yet to be indexed.  We have tried pinging them, but there has been no change.  This is not a problem for our other websites which are very similar.

What could be the problem here?  For reference, the url is http://www.dentistinlittlerock.com

Thank you for your responses in advance!

[RyanKent]

A few suggestions:

• check your sitemap location in Google WMT. Be sure it is correct. GWMT > Site Configuration > Sitemaps

• check to ensure your sitemap is accessible. Try using another pc and putting in the URL to the sitemap.

• your sitemap should be located in your root level directory. Alternatively you can establish a route for your sitemap.

[BlastAM]

What makes you think that the pages are not being index?

Looking at your sitemap at http://www.dentistinlittlerock.com/sitemap.xml I see 10 different pages listed.  Two of these are a duplicate listing of the home page so you really have 9 separate pages listed there.

Looking indexed pages on Google I see all 9 pages listed: http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&q=site%3Adentistinlittlerock.com

So it looks like all of the pages have been indexed.  If you have a different sitemap please list it so we can take a look at it.

Thanks

[BlastAM]

I just noticed that some of your pages are indexed under www.dentistinlittlerock.com and some with out the www's at dentistinlittlerock.com. This could be why you are not seeing them all indexed in your webmaster tools.  Webmaster tools see these as two different sites.

You should set up a 301 redirect to have them all go to one domain(either www.dentistinlittlerock.com or dentistinlittlerock.com).  This should fix it.