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When I moved to Wordpress, I was facing a problem in indexing all my URL’s to Google Webmaster. We have a total of 629 URL’s and indexed URL’s were only 231. Some of my posts that deserved to be indexed were not in the Google list. Then, I tried few methods and was successful in indexing my desired posts. Now, to check how many indexed URL’s you have, there are 2 methods :
Simple Method
Login to Google Webmaster and then click on your website URL. In the overview tab, click on Sitemaps overview.
Have a look :
Detailed Method
If you want to check which of your articles are indexed by Google, just type site:www.your-site-name.com in Google and hit enter and you will see list of all your posts that are indexed by the search engine.
Now, if there are post that you think are deserving and should be indexed by Google, try the following methods to get them index.
Interlinking of posts
Search for the posts in your blog that get a lot of visits, in such posts try to interlink your non indexed URL’s, as that URL’s get more and more traffic they will automatically be indexed.
Featured Post
You can set non indexed URL’s as featured post in your blog, this will catch the attention of the visitors and as that URL will get more visitors, Google will index it ASAP.
Sidebar Post
As you can see that I’ve added some of my posts in the sidebar and you know what, I get a lot of visitors on these posts, so you can also follow this method to get your post indexed.
Social Networking Websites
Submit your non indexed post to social networking websites, this will help you in getting unique visitors. More the visits, more is the chance of getting it indexed.
Remove dead links
If your non indexed articles has any dead links, fix it, as Google does not like dead links.
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Gaganpreet Singh on June 9, 2009 | Filed Under Blogger Tricks, Tricks, Wordpress
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Great post. Above all this can also be used to pass the maximum link to any single post, whom you want to rank in the SERPS.
That’s a really nice post. But all my posts are not indexed as my blog is a new one.. Shall try this in another month or so.
how about writing comments and giving links to non indexed posts ?
Nice Post bro. It surely help us to indexed all post in google.
Great post Gagan… I’ll apply this method to get all my posts indexed by Google
Nice post gagan. I will help me a lot as not my all pages are indexed.thanx a lot.
Very Usefull iformation mate but if you post is indexed on google once they only remove it if they are dead. So just digg your post once that’s inuf for it to reach into google search. That is how all your posts can come into google search.
nice .. i am going to follow the above tips
this is serious problem for me also…
when i change mu blog url then i got this problem….
now i follow these steps….
I’ll definitely try this! thx dude.