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[Jill Whalen]

SEO people are always wanting to know how many pages of their site are indexed by Google. While the site:command is very useful for determining that (as well as a whole lot of other things), it really doesn't matter much if a page is indexed if it doesn't bring you and relevant visitors to your site.

SEOmoz had a post from 2010 that shows how to find that number in your Google Analytics. I've taken that a step further and created a custom report that does something similar:



Just click the link for Google / Organic (or whichever search engine you're interested in) and you'll then see the following which shows the number of URLs indexed that brought you traffic:



Download the Custom Report for Landing Pages Being Indexed That Bring Traffic.

[Tim Leighton-Boyce]

I like this a lot thank you. I've added a third drill down dimension -- the obvious one: keyword.

As well as seeing the keywords per page, it also allows you to get a better idea of what some of your 'not provided' visitors may actually have been searching for.

You also get to see a timeline chart for that particular page, which can be useful for fast-moving topics. In my case using this report on an 'Eu Cookie Law' post ( http://www.cxfocus.c...tes-selling-uk/ ) turned out to be very illuminating.

Nearly 50% of the keywords are 'not provided' because so many of the readers will be logged in to GA, Gmail etc, but it's very obvious from the other half what those keywords are likely to have been. And the rising concern stands out equally clearly!

[Jill Whalen]

Thanks, Tim! I did do it with the keyword dimension first, but then found that you lose the actual number of landing pages.

Does yours do it some other way? (Was going to check yours out, but I think you forgot to link!)

[talismon]

Love this report! Is there an easy way to break this down and/or download by day? Having to click on each day to see the number that brought traffic is pain!

[Jill Whalen]

@Talismon, I'm not sure that it could be done that way. But more than that, I'm not sure if it's necessary. Looking at it using a month's time frame is probably a good way to do it for purposes of seeing how many indexed pages bring traffic.

That said, there is another report here (by @Tim above) that compares things by days of the week. You might be able to modify it to do something simlar.

[talismon]

Thanks Jill! I realized that looking at weekly is enough It's a great way to tell how the long tail terms are performing (particularly with a site has 200+ M urls) and what effects all these updates this year have had.

[Asif Faridi]

Hey Jill,

have't any idea about "Not provided" keywords in analytic keyword search result. can you please elaborate more.

[admin]

@Asif, see Measuring Natural Keyword Traffic in the Age of (Not Provided) Secure Search