To check if a web page or url is indexed by google, you can do the following:
1. Go to Google.com
2. In the search box, type in “Info:” and the webpage or url you want to check. So, If i want to check if google indexed this url “http://bitonwire.com/jblogs/get_facebook_like_button_statistics“, I would type in the search box
info:http://bitonwire.com/jblogs/get_facebook_like_button_statistics
then hit Search.
If google indexed the url above already, I would see one search result being returned. Otherwise, I would see a message similar the message below:
Sorry, no information is available for the URL bitonwire.com/fasdfas
- If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: bitonwire.com/fasdfas
- Find web pages from the site bitonwire.com/fasdfas
- Find web pages that contain the term “bitonwire.com/fasdfas”
Hi John,
I was actually here looking at your youtube embed post and spotted this. It’s a good take on finding out if a page is indexed in Google. I’ve always used the site operator eg site:bitonwire.com/fasdfas but it’s very unreliable if you have a large website and I think your way’s much better.
There is a third possibilty other than indexed and not indexed, which is a “We’re sorry… but your computer or network may be sending automated queries…” that you should also look out for. Don’t ask me how I know that
Cheers,
Carl.