How come Google hasn’t indexed all of my pages?
It’s been a couple of weeks now since I’ve been making approximately 2 posts a day. I was excited to get noticed by Google and Bing. But, each time I went to find out if I was indexed, I couldn’t see any pages. Then, one day, there were 2 pages indexed on Google. I wasn’t too excited because, after all, I’ve been consistent and I’ve posted a lot of unique content. So, what was the problem. Well, I figured it out.
I was relying on running the Google search by using: “site:www.parttimewebmaster.com” (without the quotes). This wasn’t working. On a hunch, I used the search “site:parttimewebmaster.com” (without the quotes) and voila, all of my pages were there.
Bing was a different story. I went to run a search on Bing, then clicked on the advanced option to choose my site. But, when I clicked the “Site/Domain” link, nothing happened. I then tried it in Firefox just in case, same thing. I guess it’s a bug. In fact, none of the filter links seemed to work, Country/Region, or Language. So, I figured I’d try the Google shortcut “site:parttimewebmaster.com” and it worked. All of my pages were indexed. Just for curiosity, I tried “site:www.parttimewebmaster.com” and nothing showed up.
So, what’s the moral of this story? If you want to see if you’re pages are indexed, use the domain name to search.
Example: site:[yoursitename].[suffix]
