Webmaster tools help
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Looking at some Google Webmaster tools data and im a bit stumped. Can anyone tell me if the "not selected" pages should be taken from the "total indexed pages" or are they a seperate entity?
The way the data is displayed on the graph leads you to believe they should be taken from the total indexed pages, yet Googles own description of "not selected" pages says that these pages are not indexed. Confused.
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Thank you Linda. Common sense told me that was the case but the way this data is displayed within WMT is confusing.
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The "not selected" pages are separate from the indexed pages; you can even have more not selected pages than indexed pages. Here is a useful link: http://www.seroundtable.com/google-index-status-advanced-15479.html
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