Google Processing but Not Indexing XML Sitemap

[Kingof5]

Like it says above, Google is processing but not indexing our latest XML sitemap. I noticed this Monday afternoon - Indexed status was still Pending - and didn't think anything of it. But when it still said Pending on Tuesday, it seemed strange.

I deleted and resubmitted our XML sitemap on Tuesday. It now shows that it was processed on Tuesday, but the Indexed status is still Pending. I've never seen this much of a lag, hence the concern.

Our site IS indexed in Google - it shows up with a site:xxxx.com search with the same number of pages as it always has.

The only thing I can see that triggered this is Sunday the site failed verification via Google, but we quickly fixed that and re-verified via WMT Monday morning.

Anyone know what's going on?

[Kingof5]

Apparently I'm the only one who's ever had this problem. Interesting.

[iPullRank]

Hey David,

Quick question: It's been over a month. Are you still having this issue?

From what you've said it sounds like the site verification failure is likely what caused this. However it is worth noting that even if Google ingests a sitemap it doesn't necessarily mean they will index the pages. I would suggest you review your site log files to see if Google is indeed crawling those new URLs, if they are they are likely discarding them because you are fulfilling your crawl allocation with more important pages and these new pages haven't been given any link or social activity.

-Mike

[Kingof5]

It resolved itself in the next week with no further action taken. Site verification wasn't a problem - in fact, I couldn't find anything that was causing it. Normally it's less than 24 hours for our sitemaps to be processed and indexed, this one just took a few days.