What is
your Google page index?
Your Google page index is simply the number of
pages from your website that Google has in its database (index).
This is also referred to as Search Engine Saturation or SE Saturation
i.e. how much of your site has been seen by the SE.
How do you
improve your Google page index (SE Saturation)?
There are three linking
strategies that will help you get all your web pages indexed in Google.
1.
Navigational / internal links
2.
Site
Map links from home page or
Google sitemaps.
3.
One-way inbound links
A) If your site
already ranks well in Google:
Site Map:
If you have pages that you would like Google to see / index, build a
site map and link to those pages from your sitemap.
Navigational / Internal
Links:
Linking from one page to the next will help Google follow and index all
the pages that needs indexing.
B) If your site does
not rank well in Google, or if you have trouble getting certain pages
indexed:
·
External
Links:
Linking from an external high ranking websites is one of the best ways
to get your pages noticed.
Buy
one-way inbound links
·
Links
to your home page:
Pointing links to your home page will not only
strengthen your web ranking, but will also point Google’s robots to
your website and cause then to index every page that they can see
linking from your home page.
·
Deep
linking:
Linking from an external website directly to a sub pages on your site (deep linking), will insure that the
page in question gets seen / indexed by Google. Your sub page search
ranking will also improve.
How to
check your Google page index:
Search directly in Google to find out how many pages of your website has been
included in the Google index/database:
Type the following into the search field on: Google: site:www.yourdomain.com
Site Index
Query/www.
The site search site:www.yourdomain.com, allows
you to view all the pages Google, MSN or Yahoo filed in its index.
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Search Engine
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Index Query
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Example
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Search Results
– 22/10/2006
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Google
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site:www.
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site:www.google.com
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about 1,090,000 pages
|
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Google
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site:www.
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site:www.msn.com
|
about 190
pages
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Google
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site:www.
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site:www.yahoo.com
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about 2,200 pages
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Sub-domain Site
Index Query
The site: search without the www.
will return results for www.yourdomian.com + yourdomian.com and
sub-domain(s).yourdomian.com
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Search Engine
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Index Query
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Example
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Search Results
– 22/10/2006
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Google
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site:
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site:google.com
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about 7,910,000 pages
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Google
|
site:
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site:msn.com
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about 46,800,000
pages
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Google
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site:
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site:yahoo.com
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about 123,000,000
pages
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Page
Index Check
Check your MSN Page Index
Check your Yahoo Page Index
Check your Google Page Index
Link
Popularity Check
How to Check your MSN Inbound Links
How to check your Google Inbound Links
How to check your Yahoo Inbound links
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