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but when i use
site:example.com xcdddd#*$!cdx
where example.com is my site
i found that google already indexing this topic
why i cannot see my topic only when i search on my site?
[edited by: tedster at 1:29 am (utc) on June 28, 2009]
[edit reason] switch site name to example.com - it cannot be owned [/edit]
This is a kind of mystery that I think happens on pages that Google doesn't consider of high importance. It's as if the main index for that page only gets partial treatment. Two questions?
1. Are the words for this topic in your title element?
2. Did you look all they way through to the last page of the search results?
why i cannot see my topic only when i search on my site?
One way to look at it is that when you search for your phrase on your site, you're only competing against your other pages... and if the phrase is indexed and is on your site, Google will show it.
If you search for the phrase on the entire web, though, you're perhaps competing with thousands or millions of other pages for any particular query. Google generally displays approximately the top 1,000 of those pages, and if you're ranking lower than that, then you won't see your page in the results.
Google considers hundreds of factors when it decides on the importance of a page, some involving your site and its content and structure... some involving the links that your site is receiving from the pages of other sites.
