Recently, Google announced the addition of indexation data within
Webmaster Tools. To see the newly revealed indexation information,
simply log in to your Google Webmaster Tools
account and select Index Status under the Health menu. After clicking
on Index Status, you will see a graph that displays the total number of
pages indexed by Google:
The basic graph, which has one year of trailing data, should have an
upward trend for the majority of healthy sites. If you want more
information regarding the indexation of your site or you would like to
troubleshoot a potential problem, click the Advanced button in the upper
left-hand corner of the graph. After clicking the button, you will see a
graph that includes the number of indexed pages, the cumulative number
of pages crawled, the pages that are blocked by robots.txt, and the
pages that were not selected for the index.
The Webmaster Tools Team posted the following on the official Google Webmaster Central blog to ensure website owners understand the value of the new data:
“All this data can be used to identify and debug a variety of indexing-related problems. For example, if some of your content doesn’t appear anymore on Google and you notice that the graph of pages indexed has a sudden drop, that may be an indication that you introduced a site-wide error when using meta=”noindex,” and now Google isn’t including your content in search results.
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