undefined
Skip to content
Moz logo Menu open Menu close
  • Products
    • Moz Pro
    • Moz Pro Home
    • Moz Local
    • Moz Local Home
    • STAT
    • Moz API
    • Moz API Home
    • Compare SEO Products
    • Moz Data
  • Free SEO Tools
    • Domain Analysis
    • Keyword Explorer
    • Link Explorer
    • Competitive Research
    • MozBar
    • More Free SEO Tools
  • Learn SEO
    • Beginner's Guide to SEO
    • SEO Learning Center
    • Moz Academy
    • MozCon
    • Webinars, Whitepapers, & Guides
  • Blog
  • Why Moz
    • Digital Marketers
    • Agency Solutions
    • Enterprise Solutions
    • Small Business Solutions
    • The Moz Story
    • New Releases
  • Log in
  • Log out
  • Products
    • Moz Pro

      Your all-in-one suite of SEO essentials.

    • Moz Local

      Raise your local SEO visibility with complete local SEO management.

    • STAT

      SERP tracking and analytics for enterprise SEO experts.

    • Moz API

      Power your SEO with our index of over 44 trillion links.

    • Compare SEO Products

      See which Moz SEO solution best meets your business needs.

    • Moz Data

      Power your SEO strategy & AI models with custom data solutions.

    Let your business shine with Listings AI
    Moz Local

    Let your business shine with Listings AI

    Learn more
  • Free SEO Tools
    • Domain Analysis

      Get top competitive SEO metrics like DA, top pages and more.

    • Keyword Explorer

      Find traffic-driving keywords with our 1.25 billion+ keyword index.

    • Link Explorer

      Explore over 40 trillion links for powerful backlink data.

    • Competitive Research

      Uncover valuable insights on your organic search competitors.

    • MozBar

      See top SEO metrics for free as you browse the web.

    • More Free SEO Tools

      Explore all the free SEO tools Moz has to offer.

    NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic
    Moz Pro

    NEW Keyword Suggestions by Topic

    Learn more
  • Learn SEO
    • Beginner's Guide to SEO

      The #1 most popular introduction to SEO, trusted by millions.

    • SEO Learning Center

      Broaden your knowledge with SEO resources for all skill levels.

    • On-Demand Webinars

      Learn modern SEO best practices from industry experts.

    • How-To Guides

      Step-by-step guides to search success from the authority on SEO.

    • Moz Academy

      Upskill and get certified with on-demand courses & certifications.

    • MozCon

      Save on Early Bird tickets and join us in London or New York City

    Unlock flexible pricing & new endpoints
    Moz API

    Unlock flexible pricing & new endpoints

    Find your plan
  • Blog
  • Why Moz
    • Digital Marketers

      Simplify SEO tasks to save time and grow your traffic.

    • Small Business Solutions

      Uncover insights to make smarter marketing decisions in less time.

    • Agency Solutions

      Earn & keep valuable clients with unparalleled data & insights.

    • Enterprise Solutions

      Gain a competitive edge in the ever-changing world of search.

    • The Moz Story

      Moz was the first & remains the most trusted SEO company.

    • New Releases

      Get the scoop on the latest and greatest from Moz.

    Surface actionable competitive intel
    New Feature

    Surface actionable competitive intel

    Learn More
  • Log in
    • Moz Pro
    • Moz Local
    • Moz Local Dashboard
    • Moz API
    • Moz API Dashboard
    • Moz Academy
  • Avatar
    • Moz Home
    • Notifications
    • Account & Billing
    • Manage Users
    • Community Profile
    • My Q&A
    • My Videos
    • Log Out

The Moz Q&A Forum

  • Forum
  • Questions
  • Users
  • Ask the Community

Welcome to the Q&A Forum

Browse the forum for helpful insights and fresh discussions about all things SEO.

  1. Home
  2. SEO Tactics
  3. Intermediate & Advanced SEO
  4. How can I make a list of all URLs indexed by Google?

Moz Q&A is closed.

After more than 13 years, and tens of thousands of questions, Moz Q&A closed on 12th December 2024. Whilst we’re not completely removing the content - many posts will still be possible to view - we have locked both new posts and new replies. More details here.

How can I make a list of all URLs indexed by Google?

Intermediate & Advanced SEO
5
10
56.4k
Loading More Posts
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as question
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with question management privileges can see it.
  • Bryggselv.no
    Bryggselv.no last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 8:45 AM

    I started working for this eCommerce site 2 months ago, and my SEO site audit revealed a massive spider trap.

    The site should have been 3500-ish pages, but Google has over 30K pages in its index. I'm trying to find a effective way of making a list of all URLs indexed by Google.

    Anyone?

    (I basically want to build a sitemap with all the indexed spider trap URLs, then set up 301 on those, then ping Google with the "defective" sitemap so they can see what the site really looks like and remove those URLs, shrinking the site back to around 3500 pages)

    1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
    • Worship_Digital
      Worship_Digital last edited by Nov 24, 2016, 8:45 AM Nov 24, 2016, 8:45 AM

      If you can get a developer to create a list of all the pages Google has crawled within a date range then you can use this python script to check if the page is indexed or not.

      http://searchengineland.com/check-urls-indexed-google-using-python-259773

      The script uses the info: search feature to check the urls.

      You will have to install Python, Tor and Polipo for this to work. It is quite technical so if you aren't a technical person you may need help.

      Depending on how many URL's you have and how long you decide to wait before checking each URL, it can take a few hours.

      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
      • topic:timeago_earlier,6 months
      • Bryggselv.no
        Bryggselv.no last edited by Jun 3, 2016, 3:46 AM Jun 3, 2016, 3:46 AM

        Thanks for your input guys! I've almost landed on the following approach:

        1. Use this  http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/ to collect a number (3-600) of URLs based on the various problem URL-footprints.
        2. Make XML "problem sitemaps" based on above URLs
        3. Implement 301s
        4. Ping the search engines with the XML "problem sitemaps", so that these may discover changes and see what the site really looks like (ideally reducing the # of indexed pages by about 85%)
        5. Track SE traffic as well as index for each URL footprint once a week for 6-8 weeks and follow progress
        6. If progress is not satisfactory, then go the URL Profiler route.

        Any thoughts before I go ahead?

        1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 2
        • TammyWood
          TammyWood last edited by Jun 2, 2016, 8:14 PM Jun 2, 2016, 8:14 PM

          URL profiler will do this, as well as the other recommend scraper sites.

          1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
          • vcj
            vcj last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 2:03 PM Jun 1, 2016, 2:03 PM

            URL Profiler might be worth checking out:

            http://urlprofiler.com/

            It does require that you use a proxy, since Google does not like you scraping their search results.

            1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 1
            • GastonRiera
              Gaston Riera @Bryggselv.no last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 9:27 AM Jun 1, 2016, 9:27 AM

              Im sorry to confirm you that google does not want to everyine know that they have in their index. We as SEOs complain about that.

              Its hard to belive that you couldnt get all your pages with a scraper. (because it just searches and gets the SERPS)

              1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
              • Bryggselv.no
                Bryggselv.no @GastonRiera last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 9:20 AM Jun 1, 2016, 9:20 AM

                I tried thiss and a few others http://www.chrisains.com/seo-tools/extract-urls-from-web-serps/. This gave me about 500-1000 URLs at a time, but included a lot of cut and paste back and forth.

                I imagine there must be a much easier way of doing this...

                GastonRiera 1 Reply Last reply Jun 1, 2016, 9:27 AM Reply Quote 0
                • GastonRiera
                  Gaston Riera @Bryggselv.no last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 9:18 AM Jun 1, 2016, 9:18 AM

                  Well, There are some scrapers that might do that job.

                  To do it the right way you will need proxies and a scraper.
                  My recommendation is Gscraper or Scrapebox and a list of (at list) 10 proxies.

                  Then, just make a scrape whit the "site:mydomain.com" and see what you get.
                  (before buying proxies or any scraper, check if you get something like you want with the free stuff)

                  Bryggselv.no 1 Reply Last reply Jun 1, 2016, 9:20 AM Reply Quote 0
                  • Bryggselv.no
                    Bryggselv.no last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 9:11 AM Jun 1, 2016, 9:11 AM

                    I used Screaming to discover the spider trap (and more), but as far as I know, I cannot use Screaming to import all URLs that Google actually has in its index (or can I?).

                    A list of URLs actually in Googles index is what I'm after 🙂

                    GastonRiera 1 Reply Last reply Jun 1, 2016, 9:18 AM Reply Quote 0
                    • GastonRiera
                      Gaston Riera last edited by Jun 1, 2016, 9:08 AM Jun 1, 2016, 9:08 AM

                      Hi Sverre,

                      Have you tried Screaming Frog SEO Spider? Here a link to it: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/

                      It's really helpfull to crawl all the pages you have as accesible for spiders. You might need the premium version to crawl over 500 pages.

                      Also, have you checked for the common duplicate pages issues? Here a Moz tutorial: https://moz.com/learn/seo/duplicate-content

                      Hope it helps.
                      GR.

                      1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                      • 1 / 1
                      1 out of 10
                      • First post
                        1/10
                        Last post

                      Got a burning SEO question?

                      Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.


                      Start my free trial


                      Browse Questions

                      Explore more categories

                      • Moz Tools

                        Chat with the community about the Moz tools.

                      • SEO Tactics

                        Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers

                      • Community

                        Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!

                      • Digital Marketing

                        Chat about tactics outside of SEO

                      • Research & Trends

                        Dive into research and trends in the search industry.

                      • Support

                        Connect on product support and feature requests.

                      • See all categories

                      Related Questions

                      • Chemometec

                        How to de-index old URLs after redesigning the website?

                        Thank you for reading. After redesigning my website (5 months ago) in my crawl reports (Moz, Search Console) I still get tons of 404 pages which all seems to be the URLs from my previous website (same root domain). It would be nonsense to 301 redirect them as there are to many URLs. (or would it be nonsense?) What is the best way to deal with this issue?

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Sep 22, 2015, 5:21 AM | Chemometec
                        0
                      • vivekrathore

                        Google indexing pages from chrome history ?

                        We have pages that are not linked from site yet they are indexed in Google. It could be possible if Google got these pages from browser. Does Google takes data from chrome?

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Jun 19, 2015, 2:37 PM | vivekrathore
                        0
                      • Chemometec

                        Do I need to re-index the page after editing URL?

                        Hi, I had to edit some of the URLs. But, google is still showing my old URL in search results for certain keywords, which ofc get 404. By crawling with ScremingFrog it gets me 301 'page not found' and still giving old URLs. Why is that? And do I need to re-index pages with new URLs? Is 'fetch as Google' enough to do that or any other advice? Thanks a lot, hope the topic will help to someone else too. Dusan

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Feb 4, 2015, 12:21 PM | Chemometec
                        0
                      • zpm2014

                        How can I make sure Google is crawling a link from an iframe (video)?

                        Do they crawl backlinks from an iframe example from a Youtube video embedded in a blog post? TIA!

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Jan 30, 2015, 9:47 AM | zpm2014
                        0
                      • JDatSB

                        Why are bit.ly links being indexed and ranked by Google?

                        I did a quick search for "site:bit.ly" and it returns more than 10 million results. Given that bit.ly links are 301 redirects, why are they being indexed in Google and ranked according to their destination? I'm working on a similar project to bit.ly and I want to make sure I don't run into the same problem.

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Mar 20, 2014, 3:45 PM | JDatSB
                        1
                      • Deepti_C

                        Google News URL Structure

                        Hi there folks I am looking for some guidance on Google News URLs. We are restructuring the site. A main traffic driver will be the traffic we get from Google News. Most large publishers use: www.site.com/news/12345/this-is-the-title/ Others use www.example.com/news/celebrity/12345/this-is-the-title/ etc. www.example.com/news/celebrity-news/12345/this-is-the-title/ www.example.com/celebrity-news/12345/this-is-the-title/ (Celebrity is a channel on Google News so should we try and follow that format?) www.example.com/news/celebrity-news/this-is-the-title/12345/ www.example.com/news/celebrity-news/this-is-the-title-12345/ (unique ID no at the end and part of the title URL) www.example.com/news/celebrity-news/celebrity-name/this-is-the-title-12345/ Others include the date. So as you can see there are so many combinations and there doesnt seem to be any unity across news sites for this format. Have you any advice on how to structure these URLs? Particularly if we want to been seen as an authority on the following topics: fashion, hair, beauty, and celebrity news - in particular "celebrity name" So should the celebrity news section be www.example.com/news/celebrity-news/celebrity-name/this-is-the-title-12345/ or what? This is for a completely new site build. Thanks Barry

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Oct 12, 2012, 5:51 PM | Deepti_C
                        0
                      • qdigi

                        Can Google read my backlink in Javascript??

                        Hi SeoMoz community! I have a software product, which our clients implement onto their websites. It is like a pop up box. I know that backlinks are very important for SEO ranking, and I really want to give our clients 2 options of product: 1. you can get the free/cheaper option if you use the code which has a keyworded backlink to our site on it 2. you can pay small fee if you don't want to use the version with a link to our site on it Now, the problem is that the product is written entirely in Javascript, and I don't think that Google crawls this, do they? Is there a way around this? Thanks for your help!

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Feb 9, 2016, 10:40 PM | qdigi
                        0
                      • nicole.healthline

                        Best way to de-index content from Google and not Bing?

                        We have a large quantity of URLs that we would like to de-index from Google (we are affected b Panda), but not Bing. What is the best way to go about doing this?

                        Intermediate & Advanced SEO | Nov 8, 2011, 5:07 AM | nicole.healthline
                        0

                      Get started with Moz Pro!

                      Unlock the power of advanced SEO tools and data-driven insights.

                      Start my free trial
                      Products
                      • Moz Pro
                      • Moz Local
                      • Moz API
                      • Moz Data
                      • STAT
                      • Product Updates
                      Moz Solutions
                      • SMB Solutions
                      • Agency Solutions
                      • Enterprise Solutions
                      Free SEO Tools
                      • Domain Authority Checker
                      • Link Explorer
                      • Keyword Explorer
                      • Competitive Research
                      • Brand Authority Checker
                      • Local Citation Checker
                      • MozBar Extension
                      • MozCast
                      Resources
                      • Blog
                      • SEO Learning Center
                      • Help Hub
                      • Beginner's Guide to SEO
                      • How-to Guides
                      • Moz Academy
                      • API Docs
                      About Moz
                      • About
                      • Team
                      • Careers
                      • Contact
                      Why Moz
                      • Case Studies
                      • Testimonials
                      Get Involved
                      • Become an Affiliate
                      • MozCon
                      • Webinars
                      • Practical Marketer Series
                      • MozPod
                      Connect with us

                      Contact the Help team

                      Join our newsletter
                      Moz logo
                      © 2021 - 2025 SEOMoz, Inc., a Ziff Davis company. All rights reserved. Moz is a registered trademark of SEOMoz, Inc.
                      • Accessibility
                      • Terms of Use
                      • Privacy

                      Looks like your connection to Moz was lost, please wait while we try to reconnect.