Hello @caramella1123
Thanks for reaching out regarding your sitemaps in Google Search Console.
You must only submit the sitemap index and not the individual sitemaps. It’s understandable if an individual sitemap is processed faster than the sitemap index. Googlebot needs to process all sitemaps in the index and each URL in each child sitemap. No need to worry since the index status is ‘Successful’. Do exercise some more patience while it’s being processed.
Hi @maybellyne, I have 3 website and for other 2 website google console show the correct number page found, i was seeing all 3 sitemap and i see in the one i have this problem the sitemap has inside a lot of post_tag_sitemap or product__tag_sitemap maybe for this reason google console It’s taking a long time as there are so many files to scan, how can I remove these files from the sitemap? do you think that deleting these files from the sitemap would cause a problem for google console or could it increase the indexing speed of the sitemap?
sitemap file extra : https://prnt.sc/iA1uxcAY4Flx
Hey @caramella1123,
When you have a bigger site, and more sitemaps, it could technically take Google longer to crawl your site, that’s true. To optimize this, you can check what you prefer to be indexable and what you don’t want to be indexed in the search results.
To customize what is included in your sitemaps, you go to the settings of any of your post types, terms or archives and set them not to be included in the search results. Learn more about how to do this here: https://yoast.com/help/how-to-customize-the-sitemap-index/
One extra thing I found is that you also have a /sitemap.xml file on your site, which differs from the Yoast sitemap. I’d recommend deleting that and sticking with /sitemap_index.xml and only submitting this one to Google Search Console.
Hi @jeroenrotty i added that sitemap just to see if google update faster my sitemap and yes with that sitemap seems google fast faster to update.
Regarding what i want index and not, I put the “no index” using the feature that is inside Yoast post, I have a question, is better using no index for Categories & tags ? or not? adding no index on Categories & tags maybe the sitemap will be little size and more fast google will index the post
Adding a noindex tag to your categories and tags means a category sitemap and a tag sitemap will not be generated and two less sitemaps for Google to process
Thanks @maybellyne , your opinion: what is the benefit of letting google index the Categories & tags?
Those archives can help your users find your content better, but this all depends on your niche and what you blog/write about. You can read more about this on our SEO blog: https://yoast.com/taxonomy-seo-categories-tags/
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