How to Know if Google Crawled My Whole Site?

[amythepoet]

Hi,

How can I be sure if google crawled my whole site? If not, then how can I get google to crawl my whole site?

Thanks

[DerekH]

The Google search
inurl:yourdomainname
will tell you the number of pages that it has in the index for your domain. Include the www.

To get better "coverage" make sure each page has at least 2 or 3 pages that link to it, and make sure that the site itself has plenty of inbound links.
Then pour a cup of coffee and wait.
And wait.
DerekH

[amythepoet]

Thanks so much Derek, ya, I'm a tea drinker myself, but I'm pouring the tea

Anway, now can you can tell me the definition of inbound links as opposed to the other kind?

Are you saying that I need to have links on each page to go to other sites,. I have plenty of them now on my links page.

Need clarification.

Thanks

[sem4u]

I think Derek means internal links, i.e.

Home links to product A.
Site map links to product A.
Product category page links to product A.

etc.

[rj87uk]

Then pour a cup of coffee and wait.

I think Derek just used that as a suggestion ;), I wouldnt stop getting inbound links anytime soon.

Inbound link:

Links pointing to a website. When a user arrives at a website from another site, that link is called an Inbound Link.

I would ask more questions about Link development in Forum 12 [webmasterworld.com]

Inbound links help spiders find and then crawl your website the more links the more times it will get crawled, the deeper it will crawl and the higher page rank you will get.

[Frequent]

Not to try and highjack the thread but I have a question regarding a search using 'inurl:yourdomainname'.

When I do an inurl:yourdomainname search for one of my domains the results include my index page along with the standard description. However, when I do a regular Google search for 'www.mydomainname.com' it just gives the URL with no description.

Does this indicate anything? This particular home page has been up for a couple of months and has always been indexed with just the url showing in the SERPS. Can I take this as an indicator that G will be updating to a full description shortly?

Freq---

[amythepoet]

Thanks so much, I will start reading the linking forum as you suggested.

I appreciate it.

Oh one more thing, when I did allinurl: and then my domain name, I get a number of 36

So that means that google has crawled 36 of my pages? Is that right? How do I find out which pages?

[amythepoet]

And about those inbound links, you say that I need to have inks let's say from joescoffee.com that point to my site let's say it is jillscupcakes.com

Is that right? But those links from joescoffee.com should be inside of some of my pages, not just on the links page. Correct?