Only half of the sitemap is indexed

[Andrew-SEO]

I have a website with high domain authority and high quality content and blog. I've resubmitted the sitemap half a dozen times. Search console getr half way through and then stops. Does anyone know any reason for this?

I've seen the usual responses of 'google is not obligated to crawl you' but this site has been fully crawled in the past. It's very odd

Does anyone have any ideas why it might stop half way - or does anyone know a testing tool that might illuminate the situation?

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Andrew

Here a few things to check or rule out:

• Are those pages accessible to be crawled (not blocked with robots.txt etc)

• Are they also internally linked? (ie;s crawl with Screaming Frog, starting at the homepage and see if they turn up)

• Is the page actually indexed (search the URL in Google) but just not showing up in Search Console?

• How long are you waiting before resubmitting - also does it literally get half way down the list, or do you mean 50% are not indexed?

Overall, I would just submit the sitemap and you don't need to keep resubmitting. I would rather do some crosschecks to make sure the URL is accessible (crawlable) and even maybe indexed already, just not showing in the report. Usually, there's some other issue with the URL besides a sitemap issue - and like you mentioned, I'm not sure how long you're waiting, but it can indeed take weeks for them to show up.