Number Of Pages Within A Site Does Matter

I've heard this is true as well. I think the reasoning is that the bigger your "footprint" on the Internet the more importance Google gives your domain.

Thus Google will rank you better/take more time to index your domain, because you have more content than others. Which in turn makes your domain, more likely, an authority for keywords your domain is relevant for.

I always suggest extra pages, with more content, and if a page is over 1000 words, break it up into more pages so the domain's "footprint" is bigger, plus the extra page(s) could be targeted for similar keywords.

I like that you actually saw an obvious difference.

 

Yes - absolutely - more content (pages) matters.

More importantly though - a stagnant website is less appealing to search engine.

Let me say that another way:

a stagnant website is less appealing to search engine.

If I may be so bold!

 

It makes logical sense really, To be an authority, you have to be up to date, to be up to date you have to be adding content. Like most everything else with the algos logic shines through .

OH dear my ears have gone pointy at the top, and i have just sprouted a stupid haircut

 

dido

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How is "Pages in URL" determined on the backlink tracker? My site TSP Talk probably has over 100 pages total but the "Pages in URL" says 7. Of course many of my links to other pages are on secondary pages.

I have one page in particular TSP Talk Comments that came back with 1 "Page in URL" but it has links to archives of old pages of my daily comments.

I'm a little confused.

 

Do you have to submit all of your site's pages to Google or is google finding them with the gooblebot (sp?).

Thanks for answering this simpleton's questions.

 

You don't have to submit any pages to Google. If you have a single link to the site and good navigation on the site Google will crawl it all. If you don't have a single link there is no point submitting it because Google will drop it anyway.

Don't submit! Don't submit! Don't submit! Don't submit! Don't submit! Don't submit!

Oh! BTW did I mention Don't submit!?

 

I'm usually pretty perceptive, but I'm not sure where you're going with that post. If I hear you right, I should not submit the pages?

So why does google only count 7 of my ~100 pages. Are they bad links? Mind taking a look?

I'd appreciate it Thanks!

 

My backlinks dont seem to be counted on all of my product pages... Are they too similar and not being counted? Should I add more text to the products description?

 

No- they don't count if under 4?

 

One other thing-- I just wanted to say that I signed up for your sites tracking software and hoped you'd open a forum so I could here your pointers.. Thanks for such an excellent resource, honestly!

 

The only thing that is really meaningful is wether or not Google has all your pages cached. If everypage is cached then Google know about them.

The backlink search only shows pages, whether internal or external, of PR4 or higher. And even then it doesn't seem to be 100% accurate.

Two other searches that are useful are the allinurl: search and the site: search.

I just checked your site and for some reason many of your pages are not cached. How long has the site been up?

Your internal navigation looks fine to me. But I'm not a real HTMl expert. Maybe Shawn or someone else could have a look.

I also know there are hacks you have to add to get Google to crawl your forum pages. Have you added these?

 

TSPTalk,

Do you have any external pages linking to you? If you do it appears that none are PR4 or higher. I suspect the major problem with your site is lack of inbound links.

Rather than waste time submitting your pages go get some decent backlinks. Even if you have to buy them. Go get yourself 30, 40 or 50 backlinks from pages of PR4 or better. It will turn your entire site around.

If you don't know how to do this email me privately and I'll tell you how.

Oh and BTW change your home page title. The title is the single most important on-page element for the SEs and you are totally wasting yours.

 

It was started in January.

I was consistently getting PR 3 but based on a recommendation from one of the posters here, I changed my title and now I'm a PR 1. I don't know if that was a coincidence, but I changed it back.

You'll have to tell me about hacks.

I took this from another of your posts compar. You have been very helpful but the more you tell me, the more questions I have. I saw a post where you said I can email you for this info, so I will do that. Is this a service you provide? I don't want to take free advice if you normally charge.

Thanks again everyone!

 

FYI, I just changed my title back to the old one and my PR went back to 3. That was fast. If it really is that fast, maybe I will play around with my title and see if I can't get the PR to move up.