subject: How to Check If Your Website is Indexed by Google and Other Search Engines [print this page] It is crucial to know if your site is indexed by the search engines. After all, what good it is to spend weeks or ever months developing and optimizing your website just to realize that your site is nowhere to be found. In this article I will share some of the tricks I use to find out whether or not my websites are indexed by Google.
1. Install Google Toolbar. If you do not wish to install this small application, I will show you another method in a moment.
2. Open the browser where the toolbar in installed and type in the url of your homepage.
3. Click on the i icon on the toolbar
4. Select Cached Snapshot of Page. If Google shows that there's something in the cache, you should congratulate yourself because your website is indexed. If there is nothing in the cache, it does not mean that Google did not index that page due to the fact that a cache is a temporary storage used to store websites short-term. If your website is not cached it could mean that Google did not have a change to do so.
If you do not have Google Toolbar installed, go to Google and type: cache:http:// yourdomain.com in the search box (replace yourdomain.com with the domain of your website). This will also tell you if Google cached your website or not.
How many pages are indexed?
Here's another trick that will show you how many pages are indexed by Google. Just type "site:yourdomain.com -blablabla". This syntax will display ALL the pages on your website known by Google that does not contain the word "blablabla". Replace yourdomain.com with the domain of your website. You can use any word instead of "blablabla" as long as this word does not appear anywhere on your website.
Please not that by changing the garbage text the results will be different. For example you will get a different results when typing yourdomain.com -blablabla and a different one with yourdomain.com -trtrtrtrt.
The easiest way of finding out how many pages are indexed is to look at the link at the top of your query. For example a "1-10 of about 15" result means that Google has indexed 15 pages.
If you do not get any results back, try adding www in front of your query: www.yourdomain.com -blablabla. You may also try just typing your domain name in Google. Any of these searches should return something. If not, your website is not indexed.
How to find out if your website is indexed in other search engines?
The easiest way of finding out if your website is listed in other search engines is to go to a specific engine and search for your domain name.
How to Check If Your Website is Indexed by Google and Other Search Engines
