I used to search for http://mysite.com to check how many of my sites are indexed by google.... But G-sitemaps says i should use the search string: site:www.mysite.com How come the result is not the some... PS: I know i have to press " include omitted results " to see all results when i use the http:// version... Any idea??? Regards M.V.
when searching for http://mysite.com google assumes you are searching for sites with that term in it, however site:www.mysite.com is a query that will only bring results that google has in their index which will be more accurate
Ok... The site: variation always show more results. PS: i tried out the difference with sites that never use their sitename.com as a term in their content and the result is alwazys the same......... ( most likely the results are just incomplete ) BUUUUT is it possible that when you use a site: search G includes all the crawled or half crawled sites. Becasue everything you can find with http://www.yoursite always has a good ranking and many site: results can´t be found with a real search. I can currently see very clear diffence in my site cus i recently lost all my listings and since 3 days google is reeindexing. in analytics i currently only get a few visits from google. All sites can be found with a site: search but not even 40 can be found with http:// searches right now. Is it possible that site: results go first but the real content can only be searched when http:// results are indexed too. Well... Maybe im paranoid.... but maybe this is something about google indexing...... However... Thanx and regards 2 everybody M.V.
Sign up for google.com/webmasters and add all your sites. You can see whether or not your websites are indexed, how many backlinks you have, how many pages are indexed, crawl errors, etc...
Try to download SeoQuake you can see PR, number of index page, backlinks, age of the site and etc when you search in SE.