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Action List: Check out how many of your pages are indexed by Google


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It is important to know which pages the search engines have indexed on your site.  Not only does it allow you to tweak your TITLE tags, page copy and metadata, but it also gives you an indication of how your search engine optimisation efforts are going over time and how good your competitors are at SEO too.

To see how many of your pages are indexed in Google, type the following into Google Search:

site:your URL

A search using site:www.boomerangbooks.com returns 7510 results.  My competitors, Dymocks, have over 149,000 results, so I have some work to do.

As you can see, it’s also a useful tool for checking up on your competitors.

Here are some other operators that you can use in Google to obtain information about your listings:

  • link:<URL> – provides a list of websites that link to your website.
  • cache:<URL> – the cached image of the website that is currently on file at Google.
  • info:<URL> – the information that Google currently holds about the website.
  • related:<URL> – pages that are similar to your website.
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This entry was posted on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 3:22 pm and is filed under Action List for the Netpreneur. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Action List: Check out how many of your pages are indexed by Google”

  1. Thomas Shaw says:
    January 30, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    Good post to remind everyone about google’s little tricks.

    Also check out http://www.iwebtool.com for some more nifty little tools.

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