Google Indexing Question.

[nyccountryhomes]

Let's say on google webmaster it states that 10,000 of the submitted urls on my sitemap are indexed by google. However, when I go to site:mydomain.com on google search, only 1/10 of that amount is listed. Which statistic is right?

thanks in advance.

[linkbuildr]

I'm not 100% sure but I would *think* that a lot of those are in the supplemental results. I've seen a lot of sites IDX listings get canned to the supp's.

[nyccountryhomes]

Okay thanks. I gonna do a little more digging.

[jessefriedman]

The two systems use different reporting schemes. They should closely match eventually. The search results is also an approximate number of pages indexed.

[nyccountryhomes]

That's good news! I hope it does because the search results have gone from 2000 to 600 now.

[linkbuildr]

Do you have a xhtml sitemap as well?

[nyccountryhomes]

Do you have a xhtml sitemap as well?

No. What is the benefit of having a xhtml sitemap?

[jessefriedman]

By submitting a sitemap, you are telling google to index those pages otherwise your just relying on google to find them.

[nyccountryhomes]

By submitting a sitemap, you are telling google to index those pages otherwise your just relying on google to find them.

I understand that but going back to my original question, why is there a difference in the numbers of indexed on site:mydomain.com vs the google webmaster numbers.