How Many Pages of Your Site Are Indexed?
TweetFor search engine optimization (SEO) purposes we have talked about why both content and links are important. In both articles I stressed how vital it is to get a high percentage of your pages indexed in order to maximize the traffic to your site. How do you know how many pages of your site are indexed though? Here are the tools that I use:
Google Webmaster Tools
Let Google tell you how many pages on your site that they have found and are indexed. Submit your sitemap to their Webmaster Tools. Google provides a lot of useful information, but what we want to focus on here are how many pages are in your submitted sitemap, and how many of those Google has indexed. You want to see a very high percentage here, past 90%.
Google Search
If you go to google.com and search for "site:(yoursitename.com)" the results will show you how many pages are in the index. This number varies from what is in Webmaster Tools and you probably won't get as high of a percentage of your site indexed looking at these results.
AOL.com
Google powers AOL.com's search, but the difference is AOL doesn't include the supplemental index in their results. These are lower quality pages. So, doing a "site:(yoursitename.com)" search here will show you how many high quality pages your site has in the index. I feel like this gives you the best idea on how well your site is getting indexed and if you need to work on getting more links to your site.