Mar 5th, 2007
Site: Command
Have you ever wanted to see how many pages of your site the search engines know about? If so and you haven’t heard about the site: command, read on…
Go to any one of the top 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and type “site:yoursite.com” and hit enter. Make sure you don’t put any spaces between any of the characters there and that search engine will pull up a list of all of the pages of your site it has indexed…supposedly…
On the official Google Webmaster Blog a few days ago, there was a post saying that this site: command doesn’t always pull up a full list of results from the search engines. It sounds like Google is working on this right now and this should be fixed within a couple of weeks so that it shows all of the pages of your site that Google has indexed.
Why Would I Use the Site: Command?
It’s nice to know how many pages of your site have been indexed by the search engines. If you have created new pages in your site, you can use this command to see if and when they get indexed.