Hey everybody,

I am seeing some confusing results. I am seeing that in the back of our Search Console we are showing around 4,500 sites indexed.

If I use the "site" operator in google, only 2820 show up... any thoughts as to why that happens?

Hey guys, I have a bizarre situation on my hands.

I have a URL that is being wonky.

1. The url is redirecting to another url and the 301 redirect is not in my htaccess.

2. There is a 301 redirect in my htaccess but is being overwritten by something else, i.e. whatever is happening in above.

So basically URL A should be redirecting to URL B but instead its going to URL C.

I know we were not hacked, it's not redirecting to a strange bizarre domain. I have also disabled all of our plugins that redirect (to my knowledge)

Any thoughts would be great!

So, then I will pose a different question to you. How would you determine the age of a page?

Oh ty! Ill try that out!

Hey there. I asked a question that has some similarities, figured I would share that here.

https://moz.com/community/q/competitor-has-same-site-with-multiple-languages

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!

I would agree with Don. Matt Cutts, who is pretty much the authority of all of this, has answered this question. Granted it was 7 years ago I think the answer is still valid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6-KA20QqL8\

Quantity is important for people, quality is important for google.

Matt Cutts on Sitewide Backlins That pretty much will tell you everything you want to know.

As far as the domains being spammy, really that's going to have to be a personal decision. Just because the word directory is in the name, it isn't a spam site. Just because there is a hyphen, doesn't make it spam. Google is progressively becoming more and more powerful, and more and more capable at telling what is real, and what isn't.

Visit those websites, do they look like spam to you? Do they look like a directory listing site do you? If you worked at google, and had to do a site audit, would you ding someone for linking those sites?

Really for all intensive purposes wikipedia was a directory, and then it started getting powerful, and gaining traction, and then it was being abused.

Anyway, I guess to answer your question, you will have to look at the websites to actually know the answer. Is the website functioning as merely a place to gather links? Then yes, it is probably spam.

EDIT: Also, at first I thought this was a competitor analysis, but considering that you are mentioning disavow, I will presume this is for you. The disavow tool is VERY powerful, and I would use it very sparingly. Do what you can to organically remove the links before disavowing them. Not only that but if you still have links from these sources, you are still getting some sort of juice, so build a bridge before burning a bridge. Replace those links with new ones, from legit sources. Write some press releases, post some solid social media, reach out to bloggers etc.