Search Console: When sitemap index shows 0
I spend a lot of time digging into technical glitches, often running automation scripts on my Mac mini to isolate points of failure. Recently, I encountered a confusing issue in Google Search Console where my sitemap status seemed inaccurate, leading me down a rabbit hole of checking HTML sources and API responses. Why does the sitemap screen show 0 indexed pages? For several weeks, my sitemaps screen displayed "Submitted: 52" and "Indexed: 0". I had submitted both sitemap.xml and the Tistory-generated rss feed, and both were marked as "Success". It felt like something was broken; I started questioning if my google-site-verification code was missing or if the URLs were incorrect. To verify, I used the Search Console API to run sitemaps().list() . The results showed 55 items for sitemap.xml and 11 for rss , both returning HTTP 200 status codes. In my automation scripts, a 200 OK signal indicates the process should move to the next step, so technica...