Hi Guys,

How can I find the pages that have been indexed by a search engine.

Does site:thedomain.com show this or is it another criteria - if so does anybody have a list that describes the use of such search like site:.... and what they are.

TIA

I'm not sure if you would be able to find out how a specific page is indexed but I do know that your stats should show you when a spider has visited your site and scanned the pages.

I'm rather curious about this as well.

I'm curious because - a friend has had a SEO company tell him that he has X amount of pages indexed by yahoo and X by Google and the amount he is being told is far more then the actual amount on the site so am curious to see some evidence of this, thus the question.

Hi Pixelpyro

Yes indeed site:yourdomain.com shows you for the follwoing:

MSN
Yahoo
Google

If you do it for each of those you will egt the individual results of your pages that have been indexed.

Thanks Vinnie - thought as much.

Out of interest what else can you out before a domain to find out other related SE information.

Such as.

related:thedomain.com

Any more?

This is from Google:

site:

If you include [site:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Domains.



allintitle:

If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences. v

intitle:

If you include [intitle:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word.

Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].



allinurl:

If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url.

Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the url, but won't require that they be separated by a slash within that url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints.

This functionality is also available through Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.



inurl:

If you include [inurl:] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word.

Putting "inurl:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allinurl:" at the front of your query: [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl: google search].

If you drop the full URL of the page into the search box, it will show you if there is any title, snippet, or cached data for the page, or it will say "no information available".

thanks guys