Sitemap not capturing all pages

Shopify Discussion

Topic summary

A Shopify store owner reports that their automatically generated sitemap appears incomplete compared to third-party sitemap tools. When submitted to Bing Webmaster Tools, only 4 pages were indexed despite the site having many more pages.

Key Points:

  • The Shopify sitemap at whataboutnoah.com/sitemap.xml seems smaller than expected
  • Third-party sitemap generators show significantly more pages
  • Bing indexed only 4 pages after sitemap submission

Community Response:

  • One user shared a screenshot showing the sitemap structure contains multiple sub-sitemaps (collections, blog, products, other pages)
  • Another confirmed all page types are present in the sitemap and suggested checking individual URLs
  • A screenshot from Bing Webmaster Tools was shared showing the low indexing count

Status: The issue remains unresolved. The discussion ends with another user asking if a solution was ever found, indicating this may be a recurring problem for Shopify merchants.

Summarized with AI on October 28. AI used: claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929.
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Hello:

I am having trouble with the sitemap generated by Shopify. It is not capturing all the pages on my site.

Here is the link:

whataboutnoah.com/sitemap.xml

But when I create a sitemap using a free online source, the sitemap is much larger…as it should be since I have more pages than on the sitemap generated by Shopify.

I submitted the sitemap generated by Shopify to Bing, and only 4 pages were indexed.

Please help.

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Per the link, locate all your pages.

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Hi,

Your sitemap contains all pages sitemap (collection,blog,product,other page) you can open 0ne by one URL and check

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Thank you.

But then how come Bing only indexed 4 pages?

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See above the report from Bing.

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Did you ever find out why?