Number of pages indexed

page indexing

[madness]

I have been running my website for almost over a year. I have good alexa ranking, good technorati rank, good google PR5 rank.

How would I know that how many pages from my website have been indexed by different search engines?

Also my traffic is still around 1000 - 1500 per day.

What am I doing wrong here?

[ZydoSEO]

Have you tried using the site: command at each of the engines to see which pages have been indexed?

In the Google search box enter:

site:domain.com
site:www.domain.com
site:secure.domain.com

for example.

Same command works on the major search engines, like Yahoo!SiteExplorer.

[madness]

alright.. I got it. Google has indexed probably about 14,000 pages for my site.

back to my another question.. how would I increase my traffic from around 1500 to 5000 and more?

[ZydoSEO]

That's a pretty open ended question considering we have no clue what type of web site you have, what type of link development you already have done, how many incoming links your site has, types of anchor text associated with those links, types of pages linking to you, how much traffic you get from organic search, how traffic you get from links on other sites, what type of brand awareness consumers have for your business (how many people just type in your URL rather than finding you via search or links), how much pay-per-click advertising do you do, etc. There are many variables at play in generating traffic.

IMO any successful site who wants maximize traffic will get it from a variety of sources. Most successful sites are constantly looking for new ways to generate traffic... not limited to but definitely including BOTH organic search and paid search.

How is your site architected? Do you have 14,000 pages indexed because you sell 13,999 products or do you have real, useful content, that would attract users to your site who are seeking information? Having 14,000 pages indexed is pretty much useless if they don't rank high enough in the SERPS for the appropriate keywords. If your page is in Google's cache but only shows up on page 100 in the SERPs, you're not going to get traffic from it unless it has useful info that other sites might want to link to (in which case, it should rise in the SERPS over time as you gain links).

Are the 14,000 pages indexed each with unique title tags? unique meta descriptions? unique content? unique targeted keyword phrases? For each page indexed do you have 1-3 keywords or keyword phrases that your are targeting that appear in the title tag, H1, content, meta description of the page? Do you use CSS and source oriented coding to rearrange the page sections so that the most relevent content that you are trying to rank for is located near the top of the HTML source code?

Have you done a thorough job of keyword analysis? Which phrases do you currently rank well for (on page one of the SERPS)? Which pages don't rank well? Are those pages focused on a particular keyword phrase (or a 2-3 different phrases) as mentioned in the last paragraph? Do your competitors rank for keywords and keyword phrases that you have not yet thought of? You can learn a LOT by reviewing the sites of your competitors... Pay special attention to their page titles, H1 and H2 headers, content, and meta descriptions for clues as to what they are attempting to rank for.

What type of sites are linking to you? Do the sites that link to you get a lot of traffic? How prominent is the link to you on their site? How relevent to your site is the site that links to you? If you sell socks and you have a automobile site linking to you, chances are they're not going to send you much traffic... But if you sell socks and you have a brand named shoe site linking to you (who gets lots of traffic) chances are you'll get lots of click throughs.

Do you do any pay-per-click advertising such as Google Adwords? Are your ads customized based on the search terms or do you show the same ad for hundreds of different terms?

There are many things you can do to increase traffic... I haven't even touched on many things like blogs, social networking, etc. There is no silver bullet. You need to work it from every possibly angle that you can think of in order to maximize traffic, and more importantly... maximize traffic that actually converts.

Hope this helps...

[edited by: ZydoSEO at 5:53 am (utc) on Dec. 29, 2007]