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Url shows up in "Inurl' but not when using time parameters
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Hey everybody,
I have been testing the Inurl: feature of Google to try and gauge how long ago Google indexed our page. SO, this brings my question.
If we run inurl:https://mysite.com all of our domains show up.
If we run inurl:https://mysite.com/specialpage the domain shows up as being indexed
If I use the "&as_qdr=y15" string to the URL, https://mysite.com/specialpage does not show up.
Does anybody have any experience with this? Also on the same note when I look at how many pages Google has indexed it is about half of the pages we see on our backend/sitemap. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
TY!
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There are several ways to do this, some are more accurate than others. If you have access to the site which contain the web-page on Google Analytics, obviously you could filter your view down to one page / landing page and see when the specified page first got traffic (sessions / users). Note that if a page existed for a long time before it saw much usage, this wouldn't be very accurate.
If it's a WordPress site which you have access to, edit the page and check the published date and / or revision history. If it's a post of some kind then it may displays its publishing date on the front-end without you even having to log in. Note that if some content has been migrated from a previous WordPress site and the publishing dates have not been updated, this may not be wholly accurate either.
You can see when the WayBack Machine first archived the specified URL. The WayBack Machine uses a crawler which is always discovering new pages, not necessarily on the date(s) they were created (so this method can't be trusted 100% either)
In reality, even using the "inurl:" and "&as_qdr=y15" operators will only tell you when Google first saw a web-page, it won't tell you how old the page is. Web pages do not record their age in their coding, so in a way your quest is impossible (if you want to be 100% accurate)
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So, then I will pose a different question to you. How would you determine the age of a page?
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Oh ty! Ill try that out!
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Not sure on the date / time querying aspect, but instead of using "inurl:https://mysite.com" you might have better luck checking indexation via "site:mysite.com" (don't put in subdomains, www or protocol like HTTP / HTTPS)
Then be sure to tell Google to 'include' omitted results (if that notification shows up, sometimes it does - sometimes it doesn't!)
You can also use Google Search Console to check indexed pages:
- https://d.pr/i/oKcHzS.png (screenshot)
- https://d.pr/i/qvKhPa.png (screenshot)
You can only see the top 1,000 - but it does give you a count of all the indexed pages. I am pretty sure you could get more than 1k pages out of it, if you used the filter function repeatedly (taking less than 1k URLs from each site-area at a time)
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