[bzcomputers]

Originally Posted by cdoyle

Thanks for this mod,
Installed in earlier in the week, QQ on the sitemap.

In Google Webmaster, I added my sitemap and as of today it says it submitted about 30k but only 5k indexed.

Why would there be such a difference?
Any way to fix it?

Google doesn't index all pages/content. With that said and with your numbers (5k indexed versus 30k submitted) it appears Google hadn't been crawling your site very much at all previously. This will now change with regular sitemap submissions.

The first time you submit the sitemap a large part of the number you see indexed will be made up of the number of pages Google indexed prior to your sitemap even being submitted. This number should increase quickly over the next few days and weeks (especially with your difference in pages submitted versus indexed). Just because a page is submitted and crawled does not mean it gets indexed immediately, it will take some time especially for 25,000 pages.