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    • Sierra-Living-Concepts
      Sierra-Living-Concepts last edited by

      Search operator "site:" show incomplete information. When I search with just domain name it show only 3 link that got crawl in past week, this is the link https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=mLr3VfrhN4_BuATQuYugBg&gws_rd=cr&fg=1#q=site:sierralivingconcepts.com&safe=off&tbs=qdr:

      but when i look a specific link it show them in any time (search tools), https://www.google.com/search?q=site:http://www.sierralivingconcepts.com/p-6300-white-silver-regence-louis-xiv-mango-wood-ornate-hall-console-table.aspx&safe=off&biw=1600&bih=775&noj=1&tbas=0&source=lnt&sa=X&ved=0CBUQpwVqFQoTCJ-4iOLK-McCFQFwjgod43gI9A

      But when i look in cached page it says "appeared on 11 Sep 2015"

      I am total confused why google not showing all the new link that it crawl from my site.

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      • Alick300
        Alick300 last edited by

        Hi Raj,

        The [site:] operator returns an estimated count of the number of indexed pages for the domain.Basically, Google displays a small percentage of the actual data because they believe it's not fair for spammers and competitors to reverse engineer someone's ranking.

        To get better results try open site explorer (https://moz.com/researchtools/ose/).

        Hope this helps.

        Thanks

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