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by iwilliams 3905 days ago
We recently built a site for a customer in Ember and their SEO guys were concerned about indexing. I wasn't sure how it was going to work out, but in the end Google has been able to index every page no problem.
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Do you know if they sent Google a sitemap? Our client is insisting on a sitemap that has pointers to every-single-product. Something on the order of 2MM+ product pages. It seems like a bit much to me
Keep this in mind https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en&to...

> Break up large sitemaps into a smaller sitemaps to prevent your server from being overloaded if Google requests your sitemap frequently. A sitemap file can't contain more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50 MB uncompressed.

The site is built on Tumblr which automatically generates a sitemap for the individual posts, but not any other pages on the site. For example the "about" page is not in the sitemap, but is still indexed.
Sorry if this is a stupid question as this is outside my field of work, but how can you tell if your page has been successfully indexed or not?
See https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ for index stats, error reports, etc.
Just search on google for "site:http://www.yoursite.com" and you can see the pages it has indexed.
How many pages does the site have?