site:sitename.com to check indexed page size??

Discussion in 'Google' started by zguoqi, Jun 25, 2005.

  1. #1
    Every day I used site:mysite.com to check the indexed page nr on google. Today I saw "Results 1 - 10 of about 145,000".

    Yesterday it was 95,000. This must be kidding because on my log file, my site only got visited by googlebot about 30,000 times in the past seven days. My site is 3 months old, In the past 3 months, total visits from googlebot is about 110,000 times, and many of those revisiting the same pages. I have no idea how google can count to 145.000 pages.

    Does the indexed page size return from "site:sitename.com" is a kind of joke???
     
    zguoqi, Jun 25, 2005 IP
  2. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    In a single visit, Googlebot will typically spider several pages. And yes, it will revisit already spidered pages on subsequent visits. This, you won't see anything like an exact correspondence between # visits and # pages indexed.

    How many pages are actually on your site?
     
    minstrel, Jun 25, 2005 IP
  3. zguoqi

    zguoqi Well-Known Member

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    I don't not understand this!! a single visit from googlebot I think can only be one page???? If Googlebot want more pages, it has to come more times. Http is always a disconnected connection. Googlebot can not fetch more pages per single visit.

    I think Google has all my pages now, about 150,000 pages in total in my site.
     
    zguoqi, Jun 25, 2005 IP
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    pwaring Well-Known Member

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    Don't take the number of pages returned by Google to mean anything - often I'll do a link:www.example.org query and it'll say there's four pages of results, then when I get to the second one I'll be told that's the last page. They're a very rough estimate in my experience.
     
    pwaring, Jun 25, 2005 IP
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    yulia Peon

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    Well.. Google Sitemap could help much on this, please read ad google support page

    Just create your own XML and upload it, google will take the rest with your site map
     
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    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Okay. If you want to be picky, let me rephrase that:

    In a single visit to your site, Googlebot will typically spider several pages.
     
    minstrel, Sep 22, 2005 IP
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    are you using robots.txt to block access to some part of your site?
     
    rehash, Sep 23, 2005 IP
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    I have one site with about 6,000 pages that shows like 40k in google.. and I am not sure why...then I have others with 1000s that show a few hundred.
     
    aeiouy, Sep 23, 2005 IP