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How to Tell if Google Has Indexed All Pages?

         

amythepoet

12:38 pm on Aug 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

It might be me, but I do not believe that google has found all of my pages. I can't really tell from my statistics program,

How can I tell if google has indexed all of my pages?

adfree

2:28 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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site:yourdomain.com

ogletree

2:30 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Also you could put a unique code at the bottom of all your pages. Just type randomly on your keyboard. Then after a few weeks search for that term.

amythepoet

2:59 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Thanks!

amythepoet

3:01 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Wait a sec, you're saying to put this in my browser

site:http://www.name of my site

I tried that and wasn't able to pull it up

ogletree

3:08 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Go to Google and in the search bar type site:domain.com

TCC_Nick

3:13 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I've just tried this strategy for my site and I get a list of about 11,800 results but within the first 30 pages, I've seen maybe one or two actual URL on our site. What is the key to reading the results of this search query?

amythepoet

3:44 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Ok, thank you.

jtbell

3:50 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Wait a sec, you're saying to put this in my browser

site:http://www.name of my site

No, don't put the "http://" in there. If your site has its own domain name, just enter the domain name. If more than one name points to your site, use whichever name you're actually indexed as.

If you share the same domain with other sites, you can tack on a directory path. My site doesn't have its own domain name; it's just a subdirectory of my personal Web space on one of my college's Web servers. I can enter

site:hostname.edu/~myuserid/directoryname/

and I get all the pages in that directory, that Google knows about.

ogletree

3:52 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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make sure there are no spaces. It should only show your domain.

jtbell that does not work for mine. I do www.domain.com/subdir/ and I get nothing.

amythepoet

4:05 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Thank you Ogletree. I did as you said and it worked.

Now, I have another question regarding my server logs and writing, but I posted that in the content forum.

jtbell

6:03 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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jtbell that does not work for mine. I do www.domain.com/subdir/ and I get nothing.

<blink> By golly, you're right! This is a recent development. I've done "site:" searches to list my pages many times, but it doesn't work any more. I can't remember the last time I did it. It might have been in May, before I went off on vacation. Certainly it worked sometime earlier this year.

ogletree

6:17 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I did it for the first time about 2 months ago and it did not work.

steveb

10:02 pm on Aug 2, 2004 (gmt 0)

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site:www.domain.com "domain.+com/directory/"