Different SERPS using 'site:'

[JackInTheBox]

Another scratch your head moment for me.

if i use
site:www.mydomain.co.uk
i get something like
Results 1 - 10 of about 7,970 from www.mydomain.co.uk for . (0.12 seconds)

However if i use
site:www.mydomain.co.uk kw1 kw2
i get something like
Results 1 - 10 of about 16,200 from www.mydomain.co.uk for kw1 kw2. (0.25 seconds)

That is the keyword search within my domain returns over twice as many results as the plain search of my domain!

Does not the plain search of my domain return all pages indexed within my domain? If so how can the keyword search return more results?

[JackInTheBox]

Bump!

[DerekH]

I'm not seeing that - I see the sort of behaviour you were expecting.

Instead of site:www.example.com, have you tried inurl:www.example.com - on my site, they're broadly similar, but it may shed some light for you...

Regards
DerekH

[JackInTheBox]

Thanks, but i think it is just google being google!

It depends on which keywords i use as to what type of result i get. IE for some keywords i get, as expected, fewer pages returned than the whole site. But for others i get more pages than the plain site: search returns.!

[rant]
I guess I should know by now that Google is a law unto itself. There is no way of judging ( guessing ) what it does or how it does it.

Why somedays SERPS change, and then sometime later, change back.

Why some sites /pages appear, dis-appear, re-appear.

Why some sites are not indexed for months, and some are deep crawled within days.

Why some pages have a green PR bar and some ( older and better linked ) have white.
[/rant]

All i would like is a consistent way of checking if the changes i am making to my pages actually effect the ranking.

I thought that if i restricted searchs to my site, and then made changes to pages i could at least see if the changes made any difference within my 'isolated' environment to the way those pages ranked. But no, because i can not rely on the results returned by Google to be accurate!

[rant]
It must be the only time i have been involved with a supplier ( i see google as a supplier although i know many of you see the searcher as the customer ) that i can not communicate with and gives different information day by day with no explanation.
[/rant]

1, 2, 3, 4..... 10

Ahhhhh, thats better.