No existing pages in Google index
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I have a real estate portal. I have a few categories - for example: flats, houses etc.
Url of category looks like that:
Each category has about 30-40 pages - BUT in Google index I found url like:
Can you explain it? This url contains just headline etc - but no content! (it´s just generated page by PHP)
How is it possible, that Google can find and index these pages? (on the web, there are no backlinks on these pages)
thanks
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Without knowing the site there could be any number of potential causes. On-site search? internal links? Original site set up that has since changed but had been crawled before a change? As for other issues and not having current pages indexed, I'd look at the robots.txt file, page header signals (noindex as one example, canonical tag usage as another)...
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