How to determine which pages are not indexed
-
Is there a way to determine which pages of a website are not being indexed by the search engines?
I know Google Webmasters has a sitemap area where it tells you how many urls have been submitted and how many are indexed out of those submitted. However, it doesn't necessarily show which urls aren't being indexed.
-
When discussing about Google index I recommend using https://sitecheck.tools/en/check-page-indexed/. This service is completely free and can handle anything from 100 to 100 million pages. It’s an efficient way to determine which of your pages are indexed by Google. Whether you're managing a small site or a large portal, this tool offers a practical solution for monitoring your site’s indexing status.
-
The better way is to check in the Search Console. For example, Bing Webmaster and Google Search Console have special tabs where you can see what pages in indexed and what pages are not indexed.
Also has a few services that can help you make it more UX-friendly. For example my service https://sitecheck.tools/ if you need help, please let me know. -
@mfrgolfgti Lol, yes that does work but not for indexing?
-
Hi, I know this is an old question but I wanted to ask about the first paragraph of your answer: "You can start by trying the "site:domain.com" search. This won't show you all the pages which are indexed, but it can help you determine which ones aren't indexed."
Do you happen to know why doing a site:domain.com search doesn't show all the indexed pages? I've just discovered this for our website. Down the site: command shows 73 pages but checking through the list, there are lots of pages not included. However if I do the site:domain.com/page.html command for those individual pages, they do come up in the search results page. I don't understand why though?
-
I'm running into this same issue where I have about a quarter of a client's site not indexing. Using the site:domain.com trick shows me 336 results - which I somehow need to add to a csv file, compare against the URLs crawled by screaming frog, and then use VLOOKUP to find the unique values.
So how can I get those 300+ results exported to a csv file for analysis?
-
Deep crawl will provide the information with one tool. It's not in expensive but it's definitely the best tool out there you have to connected to Google analytics in order for it to give you this information but it will show you how many of your your url are index and how many are not & should be.
If contentEd to Google Webmaster tools, Google analytics & then any of t analytics he many ways of scraping or indexing the site.
Technically that is more than one tool but it is a good way.
All the best,
tom
-
Crawl the domain using SF and then use URL profiler to check their indexation status.
You'll need proxies.
Can be done with Scrape box too
Otherwise you can probably use Sheets with some importxml wizardry to create a query on Google
-
hi Paul,
I too have not had any luck with Screaming Frog actually checking every link that it claims it will. You're exactly right it will check the homepage or the single link that you choose. However it will not from my experience check everything. I have a friend who has the paid version I will ask him.
I'll be sure to let you know. Because I do agree with you I just found this out myself in fact it is misleading to say check all and really check just one.
Excellent tutorial by the way of how to do this seemingly easy task however when attempted is truly not easy at all.
Sincerely,
Thomas
PS I get this result site:www.example.com
he gives me the opportunity to see all the indexed pages Google has processed I however would have to compare them to a csv file in order to actually know what is missing.
I really like your example and definitely will use that in the future.
-
Thanks for the reminder that Screaming Frog has that "Check Index" functionality, Thomas.
Unfortunately, I've never been able to get that method to check more than one link at a time, as all it does is send the request to a browser to check. Even highlighting multiple URLs and checking for indexation only checks the first one. Great for spot checks, but not what Seth is looking for, I don't think. My other post details an automatic way to check a site's hundreds (or thousands) of pages at a time.
I only have the free version of Screaming Frog on this machine at the moment so would be very interested to know if the paid version changes this.
Paul
-
Dear Paul,
thank you for taking the time to address this.
I did become extremely hastily when I wrote my 1st answer I copy and pasted off of a dictation software that I use. I then went on to wrongfully say this is the correct way to do something. However screaming frog SEO spider
Is a tool that I referenced early on this tool allows you to see 100% of all the links you are hosting at the time you run the scan.
And includes the ability to check if it is indexed with Google, Bing and Yahoo when I referenced this software nobody took notice as I probably looked like I did not know what I was talking about.
In hindsight I should have kept bringing up screaming frog however I did not I simply brought up other ways to check lost links. In my opinion going into Google and clicking one by one on what you do or do not know is indexed is a very long and arduous task.
Screaming frog allows you to click internal links then right-click check if indexed there will be a table that comes down on the right side. You can select from the 3 big search engines you can do many more things with this fantastic tool but I did not illustrate as well as I am right now exactly how this tool should be used or what its capabilities are. I truly thought once I had referenced it somebody would look into it and they would see what I was speaking about however hindsight is 2020 I appreciate your comment very much and hope you can see that yes I'm here mistaken the beginning however I did come up with an automated tool to give him the answer the question asked.
Screaming frog can be used on PC, Mac or Linux it is free to download and comes in a pay version with even more abilities then water are showcased in the free edition. It is only 2 Mb in size and uses almost no RAM on a Mac I don't know how big it is on the PC
here's the link to the software
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
I hope that you will accept my apologies for not paying this much attention as I should have to what I pasted and hope this tool will be of use to you.
Respectfully,
Thomas
-
There is no individual tool capable of providing the info you're looking for, Seth. At least as far as I've ever come across.
HOWEVER! It is possible to do it if you are willing to do some of the work on your own to collect and manipulate data using several tools. Essentially this method automates the approach Takeshi has mentioned.
The short answer
First you'll create a list of all the pages on your website. Then you'll create a list of all the URLs that Google says are indexed. From there, you will use Excel to subtract the indexed URLs from the known URLs, leaving a list of non-indexed URLS, which is what you asked for.Ready? Here's how.
Collect a list of all your site's pages You can do this in several ways. If you have a reliable and complete sitemap, you can get this data there. If your CMS is capable of outputting such a list, great. If neither of these is an option, you can use the Screaming Frog spider to get the data (remember the free version will only collect up to 500 pages). Xenu Linksleuth is also an alternative. Put all these URLs into a spreadsheet.
Collect a list of all pages Google has indexed.
You'll do this using a scraper tool that will "scrape" all the URLs off a Google SERP page. There are many tools to do this; which one is best will depend largely on how big your site is. Assuming your site is only 7 or 800 pages, I recommend the brilliantly simple SERPS Redux bookmarklet from Liam Delahunty.Clicking on the bookmarklet while on a SERP page will automatically scrape all the URLs into an easily copyable format. The trick is, you want the SERP page to display as many results as possible, otherwise you'll have to iterate through many, many pages to catch everything.
So - pro tip - if you go to the setting icon while on any Google search page, and select Search Settings you will see the option to have your searches return up to 100 results instead of the usual 10. You have to select Never Show Instant Results in order for the Results per Page slider to become active.
Now, in Google's search box, you'll enter site:mysite.com as Takeshi explained. (NOTE: use the canonical version of your domain, so include the www if that's the primary version of your site) You should now have a page listing 100 URLs of your site that are indexed.
- Click the SERPRedux bookmarklet to collect them all, then copy and paste the URLs into a spreadsheet.
- Go back to the site:mydomain results page, click for page 2, and repeat, adding the additional URLs to the same spreadsheet.
- Repeat this process until you have collected all the URLs Google lists
Remove duplicates to leave just un-indexed URLs
Now you have a spreadsheet with all known URLs and all indexed URLs. Use Excel to remove all the duplicates, and what you will be left with is all the URLs that Google doesn't list as being indexed.Voila !
A few notes:
- The site: search operator doesn't guarantee that you'll actually get all indexed URLs, but it's the closest you'll be able to get. For an interesting experiment, re-run this process with the non-canonical version of your site address as well, to see where you might be indexed for duplicates.
- If your site is bigger, or you will need to do this multiple times, there are tools that will scrape all the SERPS pages at once so you don't have to iterate through them. The scraper components of SEER's SEO Toolbox or Neil Bosma's SEO Tools for Excel are good starting points. There is also a paid tool called ScrapeBox designed specifically for this kind of scraping. It's a blackhat tool, but in the right hands, is also powerful for whitehat purposes
- Use Takeshi's suggestion of running some of the resulting non-indexed list through manual site: searches to confirm the quality of your list
Whew! I know that's a lot to throw at you as an answer to what probably seemed like a simple question, but I wanted to work through the steps for you, rather than just hint at how it could be done.
Be sure to ask about any of the areas where my explanation isn't clear enough.
Paul
-
Thomas, as Takeshi has tried to point out, you have misread the original question. The original poster is asking for a way to find the actual URLS of pages from his site that are NOT indexed in the search engines.
He is not looking for the number of URLS that are indexed.
None of the tools you have repeatedly mentioned are capable of providing this information, which is likely why you're response was downvoted.
Best to carefully read the original question to ensure you are answering what is actually being asked, rather than what you assume is being asked. Otherwise you add significant confusion to the attempt to provide an answer to the original poster.
Paul
-
http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/
Google analytics should be able to tell you the answers to this as well. I'm sorry I do not think that earlier however I stand by my Google Webmaster tools especially after consulting with a few more people.
you can use
then when done go to seo Scroll to bottom you will see exactly how many pages have been indexed successfully by Google.
Mr. Young,
I would like to know if this person does not have a 301 redirect Wood your site scan work successfully? Because under your directions it would not and I'm not giving you thumbs down on it you know
-
I hope the two links below will give you the information that you are looking for. I believe that you will find quite a bit from the second link and the first link will give you a free resource and finding exactly how many links pages have been indexed as far as how many have not you can only find that using the second link
http://www.northcutt.com/tools/free-seo-tools/google-indexed-pages-checker/
along with
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2642366
Go to advanced and it will offer you a show all
-
He's looking for a way to find which pages aren't indexed, not how many pages are indexed.
-
Go to Google Webmaster tools and go to health underneath that go to index status you will find the answer that you've been looking for please remove the thumbs down from my answer because it is technically correct.
Index Status
Index Status
Showing data from the last year
<form id="view-options-form" action="https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/index-status" method="GET">BasicAdvanced <label for="indexed-checkbox">Total indexed</label> this is your # <label for="crawled-checkbox">Ever crawled</label> <label for="roboted-checkbox">Blocked by robots</label> <label for="removed-checkbox">Removed</label> </form>
-
Connect Google analytics to Deepcrawl.com and it will give you the exact number when it is done indexing in (universal index.)
Take a tool like screaming frog SEO spider then run your site night through the tool.
One of the two tools about and I use the internal links to get your page number. You want to make sure they are HTML pages not just Uris then One of the two tools about and I use the internal links to get your page number. You want to make sure they are HTML pages not take the # and subtract it by amount google shows when you Ginger tonight: www.example.com and in the Google search no "" or ()( in your search "( site:www.example.com )" and in the Google search bar you will see a # that is your indexed urls a fast way is URLs indexed a very fast way is
would be to go to marketinggrader.com add your site & let it run then click "SEO"
you will then see the # of pages in Googles index
Login to Google Webmaster tools. And select indexed content it will show you exactly how many pages in your site map have been indexed and exactly how many pages in total has been indexed. You will not miss a thing inside Google Webmaster tools using the other techniques you could this things if you did not include the www.for instance useing site: on google you could find out with you did not have a 301 redirect Will not give you the correct answer.
use GWT
-
You can start by trying the "site:domain.com" search. This won't show you all the pages which are indexed, but it can help you determine which ones aren't indexed.
Another thing you can do is go into Google Analytics and see which of your pages have not received any organic visits. If a page has not received any clicks at all, there's a good chance it hasn't been indexed yet (or just isn't ranking well).
Finally, you can use the "site:domain.com/page.html" command to figure out whether a specific page is not being indexed. You can also do "site:domain.com/directory" to see whether any pages within a specific directory are being indexed.
-
You could use Linksleuth to crawl your site. It will tell you how many pages it found, then match it against the total of pages google has indexed.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Page Indexing without content
Hello. I have a problem of page indexing without content. I have website in 3 different languages and 2 of the pages are indexing just fine, but one language page (the most important one) is indexing without content. When searching using site: page comes up, but when searching unique keywords for which I should rank 100% nothing comes up. This page was indexing just fine and the problem arose couple of days ago after google update finished. Looking further, the problem is language related and every page in the given language that is newly indexed has this problem, while pages that were last crawled around one week ago are just fine. Has anyone ran into this type of problem?
Technical SEO | | AtuliSulava1 -
Old pages not mobile friendly - new pages in process but don't want to upset current traffic.
Working with a new client. They have what I would describe as two virtual websites. Same domain but different coding, navigation and structure. Old virtual website pages fail mobile friendly, they were not designed to be responsive ( there really is no way to fix them) but they are ranking and getting traffic. New virtual website pages pass mobile friendly but are not SEO optimized yet and are not ranking and not getting organic traffic. My understanding is NOT mobile friendly is a "site" designation and although the offending pages are listed it is not a "page" designation. Is this correct? If my understanding is true what would be the best way to hold onto the rankings and traffic generated by old virtual website pages and resolve the "NOT mobile friendly" problem until the new virtual website pages have surpassed the old pages in ranking and traffic? A proposal was made to redirect any mobile traffic on the old virtual website pages to mobile friendly pages. What will happen to SEO if this is done? The pages would pass mobile friendly because they would go to mobile friendly pages, I assume, but what about link equity? Would they see a drop in traffic ? Any thoughts? Thanks, Toni
Technical SEO | | Toni70 -
Need Help On Proper Steps to Take To De-Index Our Search Results Pages
So, I have finally decided to remove our Search Results pages from Google. This is a big dealio, but our traffic has consistently been declining since 2012 and it's the only thing I can think of. So, the reason they got indexed is back in 2012, we put linked tags on our product pages, but they linked to our search results pages. So, over time we had hundreds of thousands of search results pages indexed. By tag pages I mean: Keywords: Kittens, Doggies, Monkeys, Dog-Monkeys, Kitten-Doggies Each of these would be linked to our search results pages, i.e. http://oursite.com/Search.html?text=Kitten-Doggies So, I really think these pages being indexed are causing much of our traffic problems as there are many more Search Pages indexed than actual product pages. So, my question is... Should I go ahead and remove the links/tags on the product pages first? OR... If I remove those, will Google then not be able to re-crawl all of the search results pages that it has indexed? Or, if those links are gone will it notice that they are gone, and therefore remove the search results pages they were previously pointing to? So, Should I remove the links/tags from the product page (or at least decrease them down to the top 8 or so) as well as add the no-follow no-index to all the Search Results pages at the same time? OR, should I first no-index, no-follow ALL the search results pages and leave those tags on the product pages there to give Google a chance to go back and follow those tags to all of the Search Results pages so that it can get to all of those Search Results pages in order to noindex,. no follow them? Otherwise will Google not be able find these pages? Can someone comment on what might be the best, safest, or fastest route? Thanks so much for any help you might offer me!! Craig So, I wanted to see if you have a suggestion on the best way to handle it? Should I remove the links/tags from the product page (or at least decrease them down to the top 8 or so) as well as add the no-follow no-index to all the Search Results pages at the same time? OR, should I first no-index, no-follow ALL the search results pages and leave those tags on the product pages there to give Google a chance to go back and follow those tags to all of the Search Results pages so that it can get to all of those Search Results pages in order to noindex,. no follow them? Otherwise will Google not be able find these pages? Can you tell me which would be the best, fastest and safest routes?
Technical SEO | | TheCraig0 -
Indexing pages content that is not needed
Hi All, I have a site that has articles and a side block that shows interesting articles in a column block. While we google for a keyword i can see the page but the meta description is picked from the side block "interesting articles" and not the actual article in the page. How can i deny indexing that block alone Thanks
Technical SEO | | jomin740 -
Why Google ranks a page with Meta Robots: NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW?
Hi guys, I was playing with the new OSE when I found out a weird thing: if you Google "performing arts school london" you will see w w w . mountview . org. uk at the 3rd position. The point is that page has "Meta Robots: NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW", why Google indexed it? Here you can see the robots.txt allows Google to index the URL but not the content, in article they also say the meta robots tag will properly avoid Google from indexing the URL either. Apparently, in my case that page is the only one has the tag "NO INDEX, NO FOLLOW", but it's the home page. so I said to myself: OK, perhaps they have just changed that tag therefore Google needs time to re-crawl that page and de-index following the no index tag. How long do you think it will take to don't see that page indexed? Do you think it will effect the whole website, as I suppose if you have that tag on your home page (the root domain) you will lose a lot of links' juice - it's totally unnatural a backlinks profile without links to a root domain? Cheers, Pierpaolo
Technical SEO | | madcow780 -
Page feedback
We recently wrote a new website page to cover the direct mail services our organization offers. We kept the title tag to 70 characters, the meta description under 150 characters. H1 tag has what we feel is the most important term. If anyone out there has time to review & provide a little feedback, we'd really appreciate it. It would be great to know if it is built well and providing a solid end user experience. http://www.cushingco.com/print_products/additional_services/direct_mail.shtml At the moment, the only links pointing to this page are from our blog. One bit of content I am contemplating is a short paragraph - What is Direct Mail Marketing? Literally providing a short definition of it. The page was activated last Thursday and showing up in some Google results on the 4th/5th page but I am thinking this is probably just a temporary bump for now. Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice!!!
Technical SEO | | SEOSponge0 -
Can Google show the hReview-Aggregate microformat in the SERPs on a product page if the reviews themselves are on a separate page?
Hi, We recently changed our eCommerce site structure a bit and separated our product reviews onto a a different page. There were a couple of reasons we did this : We used pagination on the product page which meant we got duplicate content warnings. We didn't want to show all the reviews on the product page because this was bad for UX (and diluted our keywords). We thought having a single page was better than paginated content, or at least safer for indexing. We found that Googlebot quite often got stuck in loops and we didn't want to bury the reviews way down in the site structure. We wanted to reduce our bounce rate a little, so having a different reviews page could help with this. In the process of doing this we tidied up our microformats a bit too. The product page used to have to three main microformats; hProduct hReview-Aggregate hReview The product page now only has hProduct and hReview-Aggregate (which is now nested inside the hProduct). This means the reviews page has hReview-Aggregate and hReviews for each review itself. We've taken care to make sure that we're specifying that it's a product review and the URL of that product. However, we've noticed over the past few weeks that Google has stopped feeding the reviews into the SERPs for product pages, and is instead only feeding them in for the reviews pages. Is there any way to separate the reviews out and get Google to use the Microformats for both pages? Would using microdata be a better way to implement this? Thanks,
Technical SEO | | OptiBacUK
James0 -
Translating Page Titles & Page Descriptions
I am working on a site that will be published in the original English, with localized versions in French, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese. All the versions will use the English information architecture. As part of the process, we will be translating the page the titles and page descriptions. Translation quality will be outstanding. The client is a translation company. Each version will get at least four pairs of eyes including expert translators, editors, QA experts and proofreaders. My question is what special SEO instructions should be issued to translators re: the page titles and page descriptions. (We have to presume the translators know nothing about SEO.) I was thinking of: stick to the character counts for titles and descriptions make sure the title and description work together avoid over repetition of keywords page titles (over-optimization peril) think of the descriptions as marketing copy try to repeat some title phrases in the description (to get the bolding and promote click though) That's the micro stuff. The macro stuff: We haven't done extensive keyword research for the other languages. Most of the clients are in the US. The other language versions are more a demo of translation ability than looking for clients elsewhere. Are we missing something big here?
Technical SEO | | DanielFreedman0