I was submitted sitemaps more than month ago and google indexed successfully all my URL's, and indexing new every 15-20 hours.

Now, already 3 days Google didn't index anything and number of links in sitemaps is 0, but status is OK.

What's happening here? Do I need to be worried about rankings?

What should I do and how this happened?

Do I need to be worried about rankings

Probably not

What should I do and how this happened?

Nothing at all, just sounds fairly normal for the limited information you provided.

Hi Chris,

What else you need of information? Let me know and I'll provide you. I just don't want to post links here.

Number of links i had few days ago is more than 4500.

Sitemap type: Web
Format index: Sitemaps
Last download: Oct 17, 2008
Status: OK
Total URLs: 0
Indexed URLs: 0
Submitted: Sep 14, 2008
Last downloaded by Google: Oct 17, 2008

Sitemap URL: http://www.a_s_k_g_a_m_b_l_e_r_s.com/en/sitemapindex (exclude _ from URL)

Best thing to do is TOTALLY ignore the sitemap stuff, it's more flaky than the link: command.

Just do a site: search (shows 8000+ for me)

sitemaps are NOTHING to do with SERP results at all, they are all to do with "URI discovery"
If your navigation works properly, a XML sitemap is superfluous. If your navigation doesn't work for crawlers ...

FIX IT.

Ok Chris,

I understand what you said. I'm still little worried because of this, but I'll wait a bit more to see what will happen.

Thanks!

if there is one thing you should be scared of, it's ANGRY CHRIS

Yes, I mention that

It's normal don't panic.

i got the same porblem

i don't know why

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Probably not

Nothing at all, just sounds fairly normal for the limited information you provided.

Agree. Well said chris.

Don't be too obsessed with stuff that could just worry you excessively. Take a coffee break once in a while.

It's back! All links are now fine and indexed.