9 SEO Tasks #3

Checking Your Indexing Status:

This is one of the basics, and it's easy to do, as it requires only two steps. The first step is to write down how many pages you think your site has. If you have a blog or an e-commerce site, you need to remember all the category pages or archive pages. You don't need an exact count for this, but you do need to have a sense as to whether or not its dozens, hundreds, or more.

For your second step, go to Google and type in the following search query: "site:yourdomain.com" (quotes not needed). The result you will get will look something like this:

This result shows how many pages has in their index for your site. Did the number Google returned surprise you? Did you think you had 5,000 pages and Google showed only 245? If so, you probably have a problem. Or, did the opposite happen? You thought you had a little number of pages but you actually have a whole lot more.  This could mean you have content duplication which is not a good thing.