site:domain.com -dafdfaf no longer accurate

This popular page counting method no longer seems to work.

[killroy]

For a while I've been happy that google had insdexed about 3000 pages of a new site (about 30%).

I used the old and popular method of searching for:
site:domain.com -fdfsdfsdfsd

Today I suddenly realized that Google only listed four pages at the bottom.

so I investigated, abnd it turns out that with the filter off, and 100 results per page I get this:

Results 301 - 307 of about 3,320

It looks like my old tried and tested method is off by a whole order of magnitude.

Other methods give similar results.

Does the method simply not work anymore? Are the estimates getting a lot worse?

Lately google seems out of synch with itself in many ways.

Have you had similar experiences? What method still works to find hte number of pages indexed?

SN

[kevinpate]

I can't seem to duplicate your difficulty. It looks
rather normal to me when I use my site

[killroy]

Hmm strange...

Oh, wait, it's a subdomain to a popular DNS domain, could it be counting the pages of the main domain, rather then the subdomain?

SN

[Fiver]

you could always try

site:subdomain.domain.com inurl:subdomain

or inurl:domain

whichever you're looking for.

of course... things could have changed, i'm getting very inconsistent results with this itself today. dang.

[webgp]

I had I problem with google showing very few pages and I clear all my cookies and the results back to normal, maybe some kind of misbehaved configuration inside google cookie. If your cookies are important to you try another browser or computer and see if you get the same results. Maybe is not your problem but you can try.

[killroy]

With
site:sub.domain.com inurl:sub

I get Results 301 - 306 of about 3,570.

Strange...

SN

[SEOmariachi]

I have always noticed it being like this with google. This is also the way that FAST and All the Web do it too. It is almost like the first page is an Approximation of the number of results and as page through it gets smaller and smaller. Now the total used to graduallly decrease as you paged through the set. It staying at the larger approximation (like total from first serp page) it an oddity though.

-"oleeeee"
SEOMarachi

[killroy]

Well, but this:
I get Results 301 - 306 of about 3,570.

is the last page, and I have another one that shows

1-16 of 17 on hte first page... now that'S strange...

SN

[ogletree]

I have never had a problem with it.

[Fiver]

so I'm having a problem with

site:widgets.com inurl:widgets

today. just doesn't return anything anymore, or rather, it does, but the inurl content must come after the / after .tld

but just putting inurl:widgets.com is giving me a count.

it's not as accurate i fear, as scrolling through the serps, not everything is actually from widgets.com... seems as though anything thats +widgets+com is being returned.

has the handiest way of knowing how many pages a site has indexed been removed?

[Fearless]

Googleguy has repeatedly offered this method;

Enter a Google search for

site:yourdomain.com -qwerrew

and then click to see the search with duplicates eliminated.

Works for me.

[markus007]

When i go allinurl:www.site.com it says 6000 pages but when i click on results 10-20 it suddenly says 9000 pages.

[finoo]

site:yourdomain.com -qwerrew - I cant get this metod to work anymore, noticed it first a 3-4 hours ago ..