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Discrepencies: Site Operator and Sitemap Data
By Find2k | March 6, 2009
Your Sitemap report only reflects the URLs you’ve submitted in your Sitemap file, whereas a site operator is a quick diagnosis of the general health of your site in Google’s index.
Well Google Webmaster Central talks about it all over again for “Webmaster Level: Beginner to Intermediate”
Please go through some parts from the post itself below:
Every now and then in the webmaster blogosphere and forums, this issue comes up: when a webmaster performs a [site:example.com] query on their website, the number of indexed results differs from what is displayed in their Sitemaps report in Webmaster Tools. Such a discrepancy may smell like a bug, but it’s actually by design. Your Sitemap report only reflects the URLs you’ve submitted in your Sitemap file. The site operator, on the other hand, takes into account whatever Google has crawled, which may include URLs not included in your Sitemap, such as newly added URLs or other URLs discovered via links.
Think of the site operator as a quick diagnosis of the general health of your site in Google’s index. Site operator results can show you:
- a rough estimate of how many pages have been indexed
- one indication of if your site has been hacked
- if you have duplicate titles or snippets
Read more here: Google Webmaster Central Blog
Topics: Google, Internet Marketing, New Updates on Google, Search Marketing |