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Difference between "site:example.com" and "site:example.com inurl:example"

         

seomaestro

11:42 am on Oct 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi,

I have a doubt to find supplemental index page for google. When we use "site:www.example.com" , it show one set of results and when we use "site:www.example.com inurl:www.example.com" , it show one set of results. Actually what is the correct way to find the exact index page?

Thanks in advance :)

tedster

10:48 pm on Oct 16, 2007 (gmt 0)

WebmasterWorld Senior Member 10+ Year Member



Do you mean find "the number of pages indexed"? If so, use site:example.com - do not include the "www". That will show you the total number of pages indexed from your domain. If you search on site:example.com/* - that seems to give only those urls from your domain that are in the regular index, dropping any supplemental index urls.

I say "seems to" because this is not an officially supported search - it's a kind of unofficial hack.

Adding inurl:example.com to the search shows very odd behavior for me. On some domains the results are the same, on other domains they can be much higher or much lower. In short, I don't trust that search's accuracy at all.

[edited by: tedster at 4:48 pm (utc) on Oct. 17, 2007]

seomaestro

6:54 am on Oct 17, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Hi Tedster, Thanks for the useful guidelines.