How can I check how may pages I have in Google?

[Munster]

How can I check how many of my pages have been included in the Google index?

Munster
Aged 26 and a half

[le_gber]

I think that's by typing:
allinurl:www.yourdomain.com
in the searchbox.

Cheers

Leo

[bateman_ap]

allinurl:www.yourdomain.com

[hetzeld]

Hi Munster,

The search for allinurl:www.yourdomain.com will give you all entries having www.yourdomain.com in the url, including some links to your site.

A more accurate approach would be a search for:
site:www.yourdomain.com -xxyyzz
This will give you all pages of the www.yourdomain.com NOT containing the xxyyzz string.
Replace xxyyzz by any string NOT contained in any of your pages.

Dan

[2oddSox]

hetzeld,

I'm both intrigued and slightly emabarrassed. Embarrassed 'cos I'm sure I'm missing the obvious here by asking such a question, but you said.....

>A more accurate approach would be a search for:
site:www.yourdomain.com -xxyyzz
This will give you all pages of the www.yourdomain.com NOT containing the xxyyzz string.
Replace xxyyzz by any string NOT contained in any of your pages.<

...how does that work? If I sell widgets, and type site:www.widgets.com -bananas (assuming bananas didn't appear anywhere on the site), how does that give me stats on the pages that appear?

It's been a long day at work and the brain isn't up to such gymnastics.

Cheers,

2odd...

[Wired Suzanne]

I was wondering too. Didn't quite catch it.

[le_gber]

I think that he meant xxyyzz = the string usually used by external website to link to yours (but not 100% sure), so they're removed from listing

leo

[hetzeld]

Hi,

This is quite simple...

A search "site:domain.tld keyword" gives all the pages of domain.tld containing "keyword"

The - sign reverses the search, thus...

The search "site:domain.tld -keyword" gives all pages of domain.tld NOT containing "keyword"

So "site:domain.tld -xxyyzz" will give you all pages of domain.tld NOT containing the "xxyyzz" keyword.

Dan

PS: I choosed "xxyyzz" as there is little chance that this keyword could be found on your page...

[AthlonInside]

I also use site:mysite.com -awdfasdfasdf

I am sure my site don't have keywords like asdfasdf or adgfadfasdfa which I 'generate' by just simply hitting the keyword with all my fingers. :)

[2oddSox]

hetzeld,

I understand the concept of 'containing' and 'not containing', and the reasons you used 'xxyyzz'.

I guess where I'm losing the plot is the reason 'WHY' you'd want to do it that way?.

I think I'll go read a site on advanced algebra for a little light reading before calling it a day...

Cheers anyhow,

2odd...

[hetzeld]

Athloninside,

That's exactly what I meant, but maybe my english was too poor ... :(
I wasn't sure about the spelling of "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" :)) (for Mary Poppins' fans)

Dan

[hetzeld]

2oddSox,

The reason I suggested that search is the following: a search for allinurl:yourdomain.tld will also give SERs like:
anyotherdomain.com/link.php?site=yourdomain.tld
which are not part of yourdomain.tld :))

Dan

[2oddSox]

hetzeld,

Champion mate! I can sleep easy tonight now. It's kinda easy when you know how, isn't it? I could've saved you a heap of typing though by just going and doing a test on Google myself.

Thanks for your patience :)

2odd...

[hetzeld]

You're welcome ;)

[seo4life]

Even allinurl:www.yoursite.com does not list all your pages in Google. I did this search and got only a part of my sites listed in google. so you can't trust in this search term for sure.

[Hagstrom]

I wonder if "site:" only works for English /European pages:

site:www.aljazeera.net -dummy 53.700 pages
site:www.aljazeera.net -xxyyzz 42.100 pages
site:www.aljazeera.net -asdfasdf 46.200 pages

[vmaster]

Use site:www.yoursite.com "www.yoursite.com"

[ga_ga]

Both of these give the same results on my largest site;

site:www.mydomain.com "+www.mydomain.+com"

site:www.mydomain.com -dummy

ISTR there was some methodology behind using the +www & +com, it might have been to do with them being stop words.. brain's a bit tired just now :)

[vdlddd8379]

Here's the deal. Just enter this into the Google search field and it will show you all your pages indexed (without any inbound links included):

site:www.yourdomain.com "www.yourdomain.com"