I’ve been trying to figure out why my CMS pages aren’t getting indexed and don’t really have a reason why that’s happening. I’ve been creating another CMS page and am almost ready to publish with quite a few imported CSV’s but before I do I want to make sure that they are getting indexed by Google. Any ideas on things to look at or work on?
By the way I have tried manually indexing the pages and the error of “Sitemap is HTML, Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead.” shows up. This may be the reason? I am unsure.
Under settings > SEO > Sitemap > Auto-generate Sitemap can be enabled.
If you haven’t done it already, you’ll need to verify the site first by including your Google Site Verification ID
I’ve had auto-generated Sitemap enabled prior. I setup Google Search Console via GoDaddy a while back so I didn’t add a Google site verification ID number. Would i need to recreate a Search Console account to make this indexed? @Port_of_Folio
So if someone is still looking for this, I’ve built a very simple service which does this (and more) for you automatically. It’s called RankWeek and it costs ~ 9$ to auto-index your pages.
In summary it takes your sitemap, it checks your search results (with the search console API) and decides if a page should be indexed or not.
