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An audit of a news site with 9,200 articles in its sitemap and almost nothing indexed: crawl demand, internal linking, and the fixes that actually matter.
TL;DR: An audit of a news site with 9,200 articles in its sitemap found only about 44 that ever earned a Google impression, dropping to zero for the most recent publish months. Every technical check came back clean, so the problem is crawl demand: publishing volume far outpacing authority signals, plus an archive cut off from internal links. The fixes are editorial: lower the volume, build contextual links into old content, trim the news sitemap, and earn external validation.