How do I know if a search engine has indexed all the pages on my site? I want all the articles to be indexed but I don't know how to check.
Oh, by the way, I got my first refering visit from a search engine today, "free travel articles for reprint use" I'm 26 in yahoo for that 
mullet posted this at 15:27 — 2nd October 2004.
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type "site:www.yoursite.com" into most search engines and it will list all pages on that search engine of the site.
hope this helps
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teammatt3 posted this at 16:28 — 2nd October 2004.
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When I do that only 2 pages come up, does that mean only those 2 pages were indexed?
Suzanne posted this at 02:50 — 3rd October 2004.
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Check to see if it says that some results have been excluded -- usually they only list a couple of pages unless you click to show them all.
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teammatt3 posted this at 02:55 — 3rd October 2004.
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I clicked the omitted results thing and it still only showed 2 pages! Is google not indexing my site all the way because my site is fairly new?
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Suzanne posted this at 03:13 — 3rd October 2004.
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I can't speak for Google, but check your links, make sure your content is targeted, et cetera. They do compress urls if they appear to be identical, so be aware of the need for new titles and such.
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teammatt3 posted this at 03:16 — 3rd October 2004.
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O, crap, if they do that then I am in some big trouble. There is no way for me to change titles etc on any other pages, everything is in a wrapper!
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Suzanne posted this at 03:22 — 3rd October 2004.
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It should only happen if the content is substantially identical on the other pages, eh? You can still set different title names even with a wrapper.
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andy206uk posted this at 09:51 — 5th October 2004.
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Suzannes right, depending on the system it's pretty much always possible. For instance, with dreamweaver you just put the title in an editable area. With a DB driven system you just get the title from the database BEFORE you load the page and assign the title to a variable which you can then simply print between the title tags (that's assuming of course, your database HAS a title field.
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