The number of pages cached by G of my website flutucates on a weekly basis one week it could be 9000 pages and the next week 12200 pages. is there anything that I can do to stabilise this? Is this because my internal linking is not as effective as it could be and also would it be worth bringing more of my inner pages a site wide main navigation pages?
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Will Ading Links To Main Navigation Improve Pages Cached?
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, Jul 18 2008 12:02 PM
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 12:42 PM
First, do you have a Webmaster Tools account set up for the site?
If so, look there first. It'll give you a ton of data about Googlebot's crawls, whether it's running into problem, etc. If you don't have one yet, set one up. You don't even have to submit an xml sitemap, I don't have one for any of my sites and they do just fine. You still get loads of data.
If you're looking just by running a site: type of search at Google you'll need to remember that each time you look it's quite possible you're seeing information from a different datacenter. They're never all sync'd up perfectly, so the type of anomoly you've noted is actually normal.
All of that said, if one of the things that can help if real pages are getting missed is to get more links pointing directly at some of your inner pages. You can attempt to bring some closer to your home page, but when you do this you're typically going to cost another page or another path a little bit at the same time. I'm a huge fan of getting at least some links pointing towards interior pages. Even if it's just to a category page that might make the entry point a click or two closer.
If so, look there first. It'll give you a ton of data about Googlebot's crawls, whether it's running into problem, etc. If you don't have one yet, set one up. You don't even have to submit an xml sitemap, I don't have one for any of my sites and they do just fine. You still get loads of data.
If you're looking just by running a site: type of search at Google you'll need to remember that each time you look it's quite possible you're seeing information from a different datacenter. They're never all sync'd up perfectly, so the type of anomoly you've noted is actually normal.
All of that said, if one of the things that can help if real pages are getting missed is to get more links pointing directly at some of your inner pages. You can attempt to bring some closer to your home page, but when you do this you're typically going to cost another page or another path a little bit at the same time. I'm a huge fan of getting at least some links pointing towards interior pages. Even if it's just to a category page that might make the entry point a click or two closer.
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 02:32 PM
Hi Randy to chack the number of cahed pages i use the FF seoquake tool which i think uses site:domain.com I do not have a webmasters tools account set up and have never used one but you think this would help me in eciphering as to what is going wrog if tehre is an obvious problem?
QUOTE(Randy @ Jul 18 2008, 06:42 PM) 
First, do you have a Webmaster Tools account set up for the site?
If so, look there first. It'll give you a ton of data about Googlebot's crawls, whether it's running into problem, etc. If you don't have one yet, set one up. You don't even have to submit an xml sitemap, I don't have one for any of my sites and they do just fine. You still get loads of data.
If you're looking just by running a site: type of search at Google you'll need to remember that each time you look it's quite possible you're seeing information from a different datacenter. They're never all sync'd up perfectly, so the type of anomoly you've noted is actually normal.
All of that said, if one of the things that can help if real pages are getting missed is to get more links pointing directly at some of your inner pages. You can attempt to bring some closer to your home page, but when you do this you're typically going to cost another page or another path a little bit at the same time. I'm a huge fan of getting at least some links pointing towards interior pages. Even if it's just to a category page that might make the entry point a click or two closer.
If so, look there first. It'll give you a ton of data about Googlebot's crawls, whether it's running into problem, etc. If you don't have one yet, set one up. You don't even have to submit an xml sitemap, I don't have one for any of my sites and they do just fine. You still get loads of data.
If you're looking just by running a site: type of search at Google you'll need to remember that each time you look it's quite possible you're seeing information from a different datacenter. They're never all sync'd up perfectly, so the type of anomoly you've noted is actually normal.
All of that said, if one of the things that can help if real pages are getting missed is to get more links pointing directly at some of your inner pages. You can attempt to bring some closer to your home page, but when you do this you're typically going to cost another page or another path a little bit at the same time. I'm a huge fan of getting at least some links pointing towards interior pages. Even if it's just to a category page that might make the entry point a click or two closer.
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Posted 18 July 2008 - 06:21 PM
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The number of pages cached by G of my website flutucates on a weekly basis one week it could be 9000 pages and the next week 12200 pages. is there anything that I can do to stabilise this?
The best way to stop this from happening is to simply stop checking for it.
Is it actually making a difference to your website traffic and sales? I am guessing not.
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Posted 19 July 2008 - 02:57 AM
you are right on the money jill !
makes no difference to traffic and sales i guess i was just curious as i want to maximise traffic by having all the pages cached and hence "findable" if that makes sence or am i barking up the wrong tree!?
makes no difference to traffic and sales i guess i was just curious as i want to maximise traffic by having all the pages cached and hence "findable" if that makes sence or am i barking up the wrong tree!?
QUOTE(Jill @ Jul 19 2008, 12:21 AM)
The best way to stop this from happening is to simply stop checking for it.
Is it actually making a difference to your website traffic and sales? I am guessing not.
Is it actually making a difference to your website traffic and sales? I am guessing not.
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Posted 19 July 2008 - 07:24 AM
It probably won't make any difference at the level you're talking about. After all you do have 9,000 pages indexed and cached, right?
That said, a Webmaster Tools account would still be a good idea if you suspect there might be crawling issues. It only takes a couple of seconds to set up an account and validate your site.
That said, a Webmaster Tools account would still be a good idea if you suspect there might be crawling issues. It only takes a couple of seconds to set up an account and validate your site.
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