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    What tool do you use to check for URLs not indexed?

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    • lonniea
      lonniea last edited by

      David Kauzlaric has in my opinion the best answer. If google hasn't indexed it and you've investigated your Google webmaster account, then there isn't anything better out there as far as I'm concerned. It's by far the simplest, quickest and easiest way to identify a serp result.

      re: David Kauzlaric

      We built an internal tool to do it for us, but basically you can do this manually.

      Go to google, type in "site:YOURURLHERE" without the quotes. You can check a certain page, a site, a subdomain, etc... of course if you have thousands of URLs this method is not ideal, but it can be done.

      Cheers!

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      • Chris.McGiff
        Chris.McGiff @DavidKauzlaric last edited by

        I do something similar but use Advanced Web Ranking, use site:www.domain.com as your phrase, run it to retrieve 1000 results and generate a Top Site Report in Excel to get the indexed list.

        Also remember that you can do it on sub-directories (or partial URL paths) as a way to get more than 1000 pages from the site. In general I run it once with site:www.domain.com, then identify the most frequent sub-directories, and add those as additional phrases to the project and run a second time, i.e.: site:www.domain.com site:www.domain.com/dir1 site:www.domain.com/dir2 etc.

        Still not definitive, but think it does give indication of where value is.

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        • DanishWadhwa
          DanishWadhwa last edited by

          I think you need not any tool for this, you can directly go to google.com and search: Site:www.YourWebsiteNem.com Site:www.YourWebsiteName.com/directory I think this will be the best option to check if your website is crwled by google or not.

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          • squareplug
            squareplug last edited by

            hmm...I thought there was a way to pull those SERPs urls into Google docs using a function of some sort?

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            • Philip_Petrescu
              Philip_Petrescu @Chris.McGiff last edited by

              I would suggest using the Website Auditor from Advanced Web Ranking. It can parse 10.000 pages and it will tell you a lot more info than just if it's indexed by Google or not.

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              • rickv101
                rickv101 last edited by

                Annie Cushing from Seer Interactive made an awesome list of all the must have tools for SEO.

                You can get it from her link which is http://bit.ly/tools-galore

                In the list there is a tool called scrapebox which is great for this. In fact there are many uses for the software, it is also useful for sourcing potential link partners.

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                • CMC-SD
                  CMC-SD @kdaly100 last edited by

                  Unless I'm missing something, there doesn't seem to be a way to get Google to show more than 100 results on a page. Our site has about 8,000 pages, and I don't relish the idea of manually exporting 80 SERPs.

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                    • CarlLarson
                      CarlLarson last edited by

                      This post from Distilled mentions that SEO for Excel plugin has a "Indexation Checker":
                      https://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/awesome-examples-of-how-to-use-seotools-for-excel/

                      Alas, after downloading and installing, it appears this feature was removed...

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                      • Adlanera
                        Adlanera last edited by

                        I generally just use Xenu's hyperlink sleuth (if you thousands of pages) to listing out all the URLs you have got and I might then manually take a look at them, however, see the guitar in demand I have not come upon an automatic device yet. If all people are aware of any, I'd like to recognize as properly.

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