Google de-indexing some of your posts or your posts not getting indexed? What you should know

It is normal and good practices for bloggers to go ahead to re-submit their sitemaps that was attached to their Google Webmaster Tool anytime they publish new posts. 

As this is a way of reminding or alerting and inviting Google spiders to quickly come and crawl your pages and index your new contents for search engine visibility.

But I noticed that while many bloggers engage in that, and in addition use their Google Webmaster Tools to keep track of their submitted and indexed URL, recently they have been some sorts of complaints that some of their submitted URL are either left un-indexed or that some that were previously indexed are rather getting de-indexed by Google. 

Obviously de-indexing of your already indexed pages, if that happens, is not a good sign or thing that any blogger or webmaster will be happy about.

Normally, when you re-submit your sitemaps each time you have a new  post (page) on your blog, Google Webmaster Tools records the number of URL you have submitted together with the number of those URL that have been indexed. It presents them in form of a bar chart consisting of two bars of blue and red colors in the chart. 

The blue bar signifying the total number of URL you have submitted as contained in your sitemap and the red bar showing the number of those submitted URL that have been indexed by Google.

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Though Google Webmaster Tools have been recommended as one of the best online tools for your blog/web pages analysis, I want to tell you that it is not devoid from error.

I am writing this today to draw your attention closely to the Google Webmaster Tools that you have been relying solely on for your pages analysis. 

I want to let you know that we have been closely monitoring and researching on the data often presented by Google Webmaster Tools especially that of the submitted and indexed URL for close to a year and the half now.

And throughout our researches and data gatherings, we can tell you that Google Webmaster Tool is not a perfect tool also, and that some of those data presented by Google Webmaster Tool are often done in errors with wrong statistics and are not represented in real time.

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Sometimes, in fact most times some of your pages would have been indexed by Google, but Webmaster Tool will not record it in real time. With the data from your Webmaster Tool, you still think that your posts (pages) are yet to be indexed, especially for those that rely only on Google Webmaster Tool for their statistics.

The funny part of it is that sometimes you will even come back to check your Webmaster Tool to notice that the numbers of your previously indexed URL have reduced, and in the right sense which should be suggestive that some of your pages have been de-indexed.

 And yes we know that Google do de-index pages, maybe pages that have faltered or did not meet up to their Webmaster standard or as result of introduction of new algorithm.

But I want to tell you that it is not always so and there are always high tendency that none of your pages were even de-index at the first place but you are only seeing lower number of  indexed pages on Google Webmaster Tool in error.

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For a typical example, my post of yesterday has been indexed by Google and is already appearing on Google search engine results, but Webmaster Tool is yet to record it.

So what I want you to understand here is that Google Webmaster Tools can be regarded as the best tool out there for analyzing your pages, but never you think that it is a perfect tool, though I doubt if there are any perfect tool out there because of the complexity involved in indexing billions of webpages out there.

Now starting from today, when you use your Google Webmaster Tool to analyze your indexed pages, you have nothing to panic when it is indicating that some of your pages are not yet indexed. 

What I urge you to do at this point is just for you to take a step further and do little more research on your pages especially the ones you felt are not yet indexed. 

You can just copy and paste the title of the page on Google Search and you might be surprised to see it appear on the search engine result, signifying that Google has indexed it.

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