When I checked Google Search Console after a month, only 2 of my 8 sites were indexed. The other 6...
When I checked Google Search Console after a month, only 2 of my 8 sites were indexed. The other 6 had zero pages in Google's eyes. No penalty, no error banner. Just silence.
The bug
My build script generated the sitemap by mapping over page objects. Somewhere a URL field was an object, not a string. So the sitemap shipped lines like:
<url><loc>https://example.com/[object Object]</loc></url>
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