How to find out how many pages on your site are indexed by Google by Mark Nunney, 15 August 2007
Every site owner needs to know that Google has indexed all their site's pages. Here's how to find out.
Underlying much of what's required for SEO for profit is the simple math resulting from the fact that there is a limit to the traffic and sales you can get from small numbers of pages on your website.
It means that your site will need a lot of pages and that means you need to know how many are indexed by the search engines.
Google is the number 1 search engine, and the most direct way of finding out how many pages of your site Google has indexed is to search Google with -
site: yourdomain.com
The following image shows the results of that search for thinkingmanagers.com and we can see it has almost 7,000 pages on Google.
Here’s the same for cnn.com (which has around 2.75 million pages on Google).
About Mark Nunney
Mark Nunney has been a successful professional SEO since 2000. He is CEO of The Website Marketing Company and publishes ThinkingManagers.com, the business management website. With Wordtracker he is committed to teaching 'SEO for profit in the real world'. You can follow Mark Nunney's SEO on Twitter.
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Awesome, I'll be checking this for my website :).
Is this method more accurate then what's in the google webmaster? I did adjust some header description & meta tags a couple of days ago. And my site has normally around 1,700 pages, but now it's only showing 1,100 pages. But when I did the Site:"domain.com", it's still showing 1,700.
Right, But I have seen google say in webmaster tools that is has 30 pages indexed, then when looking at google using site: it shows 80 pages. This is an example only, unless webmaster toold shows newly Indexed pages and google keeps old cached pages for a long time...