When Googling site:mydomain.com what does listing order tell us?

[GregB123]

To find all the pages on my site that are indexed by Google I can search using site:mydomain.com and it gives pages of results.

But what does the order of results relate to? Is it page rank or strength?

My list of pages doesn't appear to be in order of strength. And it's definitely not by age or alphabetical...

[Chris.Menke]

Gregory,

Generally they are vaguely in order of strongest to weakest--according to google. The site:domain is a good way to get a sense of which pages on a domain are the strongest but don't rely heavily on those results.

[MattAntonino]

Well, the way I see it is it gives you two bits of info:

1. It tells you if the homepage is the strongest URL on your domain. If it's not, you have a big problem.

2. It tells you which pages Google thinks are most relevant as a search result for your domain. This is basically useless.  However, if you add any keyword to it, now it is 100% relevance for that keyword.

site:mysite.com keyword

That puts the pages on your site in order of SEO strength (for the most part.)  The list by itself acts (more) like:

site:mysite.com mysite.com