Hi everyone! I recently built a web app featuring a word game with multiple pages. I want it to be searchable on Google, so I created a sitemap and submitted it through Google Search Console about three months ago. Unfortunately, it still can't retrieve the sitemap, and only one page is indexed. When I search with relevant keywords, I can't find my app at all. I'm hoping someone can help me resolve this issue and get my app visible on Google.
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Make sure to validate your sitemap at the provided tools like xml-sitemaps.com. Also, try using the 'site:' command followed by your domain to see what Google has indexed. If you share your website name, we can look at it together!
Are you sure you know how to upload an XML file to your server? You might want to double-check that process.
I definitely know how to upload XML files and I've done it! When I access my sitemap at the URL I provided, it loads correctly. So it seems the issue lies elsewhere.
You might not need the sitemap for Google to index your pages. Have you tried entering the individual URLs directly in the search bar of the console to see why they're not indexed? That can give you some clues!
I checked, and I see one page not indexed because it’s crawled but not currently indexed, and another one has a redirect issue.
Here's my website: https://spinwords.pages.dev. I've checked the sitemap with the URL https://spinwords.pages.dev/sitemap-v2.xml, and it's valid.