Search Engine Not Indexing Your Posts?

First of all, I assume that you are using the most popular webmaster tools developed by the most popular search engine, well, you know which one. In "Index Status", you noticed that you only have very few URLs being indexed, e.g. around 1~3. And you remember that you already submitted a sitemap for your blog. According to the section "Crawl", "Sitemaps", you have over 100 pages submitted, and over 100 pages indexed. So, how come you only have 2 URLs being indexed?

Why is search engine not indexing your posts correctly? A possible reason is that when you set up your profile in webmaster tools, you add your site name incorrectly. For example, if your domain name is some--domain--name.com, some--domain--name.com is very different from www.some--domain--name.com in the eyes of search engine. If you add www.some--domain--name.com as your site name in the profile, and try to update the search engine by "Crawl", "Fetch as", you will get a redirect error message. If you add some--domain--name.com as your site name in the profile and "Fetch", you will get a message saying "Status: Complete, URL and linked pages submitted to index..."

I have a WordPress website which only has 30+ blog pages, and the total number of URLs indexed is well over 100, probably some URLs including those tags and etc. So, if you have an extremely low number of URLs indexed, check if you are naming your website incorrectly. In the user interface, I don't see a place where you can change / edit your website name, I guess you have to start a new profile.