Hold the next batch until most of the last one is indexed
Google rejects scaled pages quietly. One audited directory reached 90,639 pages crawled but not indexed while its impressions fell from 4,107 a day to 48. Publish more only once about 85% of the sitemap is in the index.
Step 5.2.7
Time: 30m
Done when
From Search Console’s page indexing report and the sitemap, give indexed pages ÷ sitemap URLs. Does it reach 85% before the next generated batch ships? (Proof: a count.)