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For some reasons, we adjusted the content of our site.
The pages which google indexed are no longer exist on our server.
At the same time, we added new pages.
The problems are:
1). Google kept on indexing these removed pages, and we were getting visits to these removed pages.
2). Google has only indexed the home page of our new site, left all other new pages untouched. We get almost ZERO traffic at present!
My questions are:
How can I let google erase the removed content from its index and index our new pages?
Also, our PR is white, except the home page which got PR1.
Any suggestions to make the PRs higher?
I just learnt that our site is now listed in ODP directory.
I checked Google directory, but I didn't find our site.
Thanks
Wu Song
China
Mostly this is problem of time. If Google still crawls your old pages, you could put up 301 redirects to new pages. Google should eventually stop requesting the old pages and index the new pages.
To get higher traffic, and PageRank, you need links from other sites. The ODP is an excellent start.
It takes some time for a listing to show up in the Google ODP clone, don't worry.
Wu Song
We were using a free tool from google. "Customizable Google Free Search".
When you signed into the account, you input "www. domain.com", and it will show how many pages of this domain indexed in google.
Today I tried "domain.com", and I find different results.
What's going on?
1) site:www.widgets.ca -xxyyzz
Note: -xxyyzz can be some other non-word that doesn't appear on your website - Ex. -insertnonsensewordhere
2) allinurl:www.widgets.ca
- canuck
2) allinurl:www.widgets.ca
Use the first method or 'site:www.domain.com domain' but not the allinurl command alone (recent thread: How Can I know how many pages that have been indexed in the google [webmasterworld.com])
Very strange, it is said there are 297 pages index, however, it only showed up 3 links, I don`t know why and how it comes?
"...repeat the search with the omitted results included"?
If so click this link it will show you the rest of your webpages. Google's filter is hiding the rest from your search.
I like this too....but can anyone tell me why -asdffhghhss domain.com returns 6,000 more pages than my site actually has?
It grows weekly...last week I only had 2,000 pages more than actually exist....now 6,000!
Give it a month and I'll have twice as many pages indexed than those that actually exist! Confusing when you try to figure out what Google actually "knows" ;)
percentages: can anyone tell me why -asdffhghhss domain.com returns 6,000 more pages than my site actually has?
Are you referring to if you enter the following query into Google: -asdffhghhss domain.com
The above is similar to entering the query "domain.com" and is just really asking Google how many occurences on the internet your domain is mentioned. These aren't links to your website, and many can probably be attributed to online advertising such as Overture and Adwords.
site:mydomain.com -dfsdfj -> 32 results
allinurl:mydomain.com -> 55 results
site:www.mydomain.com inurl:mydomain.com -> 31 results
Why is this happening?
site:mydomain.com -dfsdfj -> 2460 results
allinurl:mydomain.com -> 2610 results
site:www.mydomain.com inurl:mydomain.com -> 2520 results
"+www.mydomain.+com" -> 2640
on one domain that really has (and this is the cool part) a total of 1677 files (of which one is CSS and the other is the logo image, the other 1675 being .html pages).
This is a PR 6 site that is spidered moderately regularly by Google. My guess is that the "fresh" results are in the database at the same time as the "deep" results, causing duplicates that only show up in the count with filter=0. However, so far trying to "catch" a duplicate on the same serps page has failed, so maybe the numbers are just plain wrong.
The only other possibility I can think of is tracking 404's or <dir>/ and <dir>/index.html, but this site has only been around for a couple of months and AFAIK it's never had a bad internal link or old pages retired, so those seem pretty unlikely.
