I mentioned in my blog yesterday that some sites in Google webmaster Tools are showing that their sitemaps are “Pending” and not showing any data. Well Google have posted to their help forum about this subject.
Google’s response is that this is normal and that the data will be updated once the sitemap has been downloaded again. They reassure us that this is nothing to be concerned about and that the information from the sitemap will be updated as soon as the sitemap has been downloaded again.
Google prioritise the downloading and crawling of sites in their Webmaster Tools so the longer your SEO campaign has been going, and the better reputation your site has with Google will speed up the downloading of your sitemap.
It may be, that as the new upgrade to Google Webmaster Tools has only just been released to more users that they have more sitemaps to download than normal. As Google try to make the Google Webmaster Tools easier to use for all website owners it should be expected that more people might sign up for the services, so initial submissions of sites with lower Google reputations could increase. This could increase the queue of sitemaps waiting to be downloaded, which might impact on the time you have to wait. A natural side effect of Google wanting more people to use Google Webmaster Tools
As always, it is important that you site is Optimised for search engines and does not break any of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines.
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