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What Does This Tool Do?
It shows if your Joomla site has indexing problems in any of three major search engines: Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Instructions
Part 1: Add these two numbers:
- Administrator > Content > All Content Items > At the bottom of the page
- Administrator > Content > Static Content Manager > At the bottom of the page
Part 2: Add these two numbers:
- Administrator > Content > Section Manager > At the bottom of the page
- Administrator > Content > Category Manager > At the bottom of the page
Part 3: Add the pages on your site that are useful to visitors. Examples are:
- Forum Posts
- Documents available to download
Understanding the Results
- A good result will show green. This means the search engine has indexed between 70% and 130% of your pages.
- A bad result will show red. This means the search engine has indexed too many or too few of your pages.
Improvements
What can you do to improve if I have too few pages?
- More incoming links. Often sites that have few indexed pages are new or have very few incoming links.
- More internal links. Try and link more between articles on your site. One easy way to do this is with the Simply Links component.
- Check your template. Do you have Javascript or Flash menus? Do you have a big splash page? Look for things that might prevent search engines from indexing your site.
What can you do to improve if I have too many pages?
- Go to the search engines where your results are bad and use this search … site:mydomain.com
- Look for pages that are of low quality. Examples include:
- PDF pages (duplicate content – the text is the same as the original article)
- User profile pages (repetitive and often little information)
- Calendar pages (often 1000s of empty days are indexed)
- Photo pages (little or no text)
- Use robots.txt to remove the low quality pages. A guide to using robots.txt is here.
Questions
If you are an SEO Club member and have any questions about the tool or its results, please post on the club forum.