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Google indexes over 30 trillion web pages as of 2022, up from 30 trillion in 2013. A site can experience index bloat when Google indexes pages that should not be indexed, such as duplicate content or non-public pages. Index bloat can confuse search engines and lead to irrelevant search results. The document discusses checking for specific issues like blocked URLs, mirror sites, XML sitemaps, and ensuring sitemaps follow proper protocols and are clean.

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Google indexes over 30 trillion web pages as of 2022, up from 30 trillion in 2013. A site can experience index bloat when Google indexes pages that should not be indexed, such as duplicate content or non-public pages. Index bloat can confuse search engines and lead to irrelevant search results. The document discusses checking for specific issues like blocked URLs, mirror sites, XML sitemaps, and ensuring sitemaps follow proper protocols and are clean.

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1. How many pages are indexed by Google?

Answer:
30 trillion pages. That figure is up by 100 trillion pages from when Google first launched this web page back
in March 1, 2013. In fact, the original blog post from Google shows the metric of pages back then, which was
less than four years ago, to be only 30 trillion pages.
How To Check Individual:
A Google indexed pages checker can be used in the following way:
 Enter your URL in the Google indexed pages checker.
 The URL is the website that you are wishing to check about its ranking or webpage content value.
 Click continue to receive the results of your scan.

2. When a site: search, does the homepage come up first?


Answer:
3. Does the site have index bloat?
Answer:
Index bloat is one of the most common SEO problems that websites, especially ecommerce sites, face today.
It occurs whenever Google indexes pages that should not be indexed. Index bloat can happen to almost any
website as a result of pagination issues, having secure and non-secure versions of your site indexed, or even
allowing your WordPress blog categories, tags, and archives to be indexed by Google.
Index bloat can be a huge SEO problem for your website. For one, it’s confusing to search engines, especially
when there are potentially thousands of variations of a single product category. When search engines come
across a website with index bloat, they can struggle to understand which page is the most relevant to
searchers and may serve up non-relevant results – the thing Google wants to avoid at all costs.
Index bloat also causes duplicate content problems, as these pages typically don’t have unique content or
meta information. Remember, this is what Google says about duplicate content:

4. Are there any specific crawl issues?


URLS blocked for smartphones. The "Blocked" error appears on the Smartphone tab of the URL Errors
section of the Crawl > Crawl Errors page. If you get the "Blocked" error for a URL on your site, that means
that the URL is blocked for Google's smartphone Googlebot in your site's robots.txt file.

5. Does the site have mirror sites?


A mirror site is a complete copy of a website or Web page that is placed under a different URL but is identical
in every other way. Mirror sites are commonly used to relieve server traffic and are commonly located on
different continents to serve the populations of those areas.
6. If the site uses mirror sites to reduce server load, are the mirrors noindexed?
Answers:
Mirror websites or mirrors are replicas of other websites. The main purpose of mirrors is often reduced
network traffic, improved access speed, or improved availability of the original site. Such websites have
different URLs than the original, but host identical content to it. Mirrors can also serve as real-time backups.

7. Does the site have an xml sitemap (or sitemaps with an index)?
Answer:
A site map is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in
any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically
organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional
information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in
relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

8. Does the xml sitemap follow proper xml protocol?


Answer:
XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site's pages—this is
important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites. There is no downside of having an XML
Sitemap and having one can improve your SEO, so we highly recommend them.

9. Clean sitemap?
Answer:
A clean sitemap is one which contains only valid URLs which you want search engines to index. Every website is
given a set crawl budget by Google. A well-optimized website uses this limited crawl budget effectively by
serving only worthy pages in its sitemap. To do so you must remove pages/URLs which doesn’t serve any
purpose.

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