Hello!
It’s possible that Google has not yet crawled your sitemap after you published the blog post.
TSF’s sitemap is limited in size: it included the most recently updated 1000 blog posts by default. It might be that the post wasn’t included in the sitemap the last time Google crawled it.
Hi Sybre– I had previously increased the sitemap size to 3000 posts (my site is 10 years old) so I don’t think that is the issue. –Mark
Hi Mark,
We haven’t had any reports of the sort since we last touched the sitemap (Nov 2020), so I doubt there is a bug. However, I still believe Google Search Console to be lagging in synchronizing its data; so, this issue might’ve been resolved already.
Would you like me to inspect it manually? Then I do require a URL of the post affected. Thank you!
Hi Sybre–
Normally it wouldn’t be that big a deal but this particular post is part of my ‘pillar content’ so yes, I would appreciate you inspecting it manually. The URL is https://sharpologist.com/best-shave-cream/ . Thanks. –Mark
Hi Mark,
Thank you for sharing the link and, of course, your patience.
I see no syntactical (or any other) issue. Since your last message, I believe Google should’ve rectified their statement about the “not submitted in sitemap”-part? If not, please wait a little longer or raise an issue with them.
If Google considers a page indexed, having it in the sitemap is of no importance — Google will periodically recrawl the page to check for changes regardless; an updated sitemap timestamp will merely suggest processing that earlier.
To learn more, see https://tsf.fyi/kb/sitemap.
Thank you for checking. I just looked and the URL is still showing as “Indexed, not submitted in sitemap” in Google Search Console but I understand what you are saying about indexing so I am a little less concerned than I was. 🙂 I’ll reach out to Google (if such a thing is possible!).
I just noticed the same issue with my 3 latest posts, all published after August 11. Not sure what to make of it as the posts are definitely in the sitemap.
@jbmaca, please check the sitemaps report when Google last crawled (and processed) the sitemap. Large sitemaps take (far) longer to process, so I urge keeping it small (load time under 2 seconds) for the best results.
It is a good sign, though, that Google finds your pages without needing to parse the sitemap 🙂 If you’re still finding issues, please open a new topic so we won’t bother Mark too much with notifications.
