Number of Pages Indexed V's Number of Pages on your SIte.

[whatley]

Hey,

Maybe someone can shed some light on this for me.

I have two sites, lets call them site A and site B

At the moment site A - has 4,500 pages, but Google says it has indexed 9,140 pages.

Site B has 60,000 pages, and Google shows that its indexed 71,600 pages.

I am finding the amount of pages indexed by using site:http://www.siteA.com -acx in Google.

What I want someone to tell me is how can Google index more pages than the site contains?

Whatley

[traffik daddy]

Is G not holding old pages?

This is my case in Ask Jeeves. One of my sites has been revamped now for 4 or 5 months and still it is holding old pages as well as the new ones, I have seen this in other engines too but not Google - yet! If this is the case then try using them as landing pages :) (A lot of work though). If not, then I dunno.

Have you checked all your page links by viewing the omitted results?

Terry

[pageoneresults]

Try the search without the -acx...

site:http://www.example.com

Do the numbers look any different?

[BigDave]

Do you have any pages with dynamic content?

How about pages that generate a 301 or 302 redirect?

I have found a few cases where people link to directories on my site without the trailing slash, and this generates a redirect, and google will include both of these in their index.

[whatley]

Both the sites are new (6 months old max).

I have just done the site:http://www.example.com and it comes up with 8,090 for site A

I was trying to do the same for site B but google is not responding! very strange.

will post later with the results.

Big Dave - There are no pages with dynamic content.

Whatley

[millie]

Indexed with and without the www?

Also - jump to the end of the pages listed when you do a site:search and see if there are supplemental results that could account for it.

[treeline]

I often find multiple indexings of the same page:

site.com/widgets
site.com/widgets/index.html

which could lead to a higher number than there really are. Sometimes these 2 show up next to each other in SERPs.

[abates]

Could be "supplimental results". About half the pages Google has "indexed" for my site are "supplimental results" which are either 404 or 301.

[steveb]

I must not be getting this. Google always has listed more pages than exist on (largish) sites, that I have ever observed. If you have 1000 page site, it'll say you have about 1200 pages but show the 1000 (or maybe a few less). I assume the larger number relates to master caches and fresh pages, but I never cared.

[BigDave]

steveb,

That has pretty much been my attitude about it. As long as they have all my pages, what does it matter if they guess high.

Google and Yahoo seem to both list all my pages plus a few more. I just wish that the other search engines would get to the point that they pick up more than 5% of my pages.