Why does the indexed pages count vary?



Marcão Caloteiro from Brazil asked us “Why is the number of pages indexed on the Search Console different than what appears on Google.com?”

In this episode of SEO Snippets, we’ll answer that question & provide some useful tips.

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13 thoughts on “Why does the indexed pages count vary?”

  1. What about those "indexed, but not submitted to sitemap"

    Can you explain about this cause all my urls having same url structure but suddenly one of my post got into it, any specific reason for that,

    Why it is happening with my sitr?

  2. Are there any Services, that can Host my HTML Webpages for free?
    Even, if they'd have a URL and/or Banner, that clearly spells the Name of the Service? It's better than nothing.

  3. With our sitecozy website checker, we count every HTTP answer that returns a 200 HTTP code with a genuine URL so that we don't count the duplicates.

  4. This was a very vital information. Using search parameter as "site:domain.com" gives approximation based on speed and is only rough estimate of the indexed pages. Sitemap files and index coverage reports are vital in this regard. Thanks John!!

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