Why does google indexed more pages that I have?

  • My blog has a lot of articles but when I check how many articles google has indexed by going to site:yupedia.com I see many more.

    I know that’s not good because I might get penalized. I know that there is something to do with certain type of pages/posts being indexed which are not supposed to be.

    And yes I’ve tried all the famous plugins, ALL IN ONE SEO, and the Yoast one and the Ultimate and every other one they recommend but it still doesn’t work.

    Can you please tell me what can I do?

    Trajko

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  • Google can’t index pages that don’t exist. If Google has indexed a page (that isn’t 404ing, mind you), then it exists on your site. If these pages once existed and you removed them, you may want to consider redirecting them.

    If you have pages that still exist and you DON’T want them indexed, consider using the meta robots directive “noindex” (https://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html). The Yoast SEO plugin has a section for adding a noindex to a page, which you have to manually add.

    Also, keep in mind that while Google can crawl and index pages quickly, they generally wait for a considerable amount of time before removing URLs from their index. You’re not going to be penalized for having 404 pages. You get penalized for doing Black Hat SEO tricks and buying links.

    Thread Starter Trajko

    (@trajko)

    Thank you for your reply SpaceDogDeveloper and I agree with what you’re saying. But the thing is that google sometimes indexes ten times more of a single post than it’s “supposed” to index. Please let me demonstrate. Let’s take the single post…

    https://www.yupedia.com/own-the-most-innovative-personal-growth-book-of-the-last-40-years.html

    Well, if on google you type the title and put into quotes like this…

    “Own the most innovative Personal Growth book of the last 40 years”

    you will see many results being given, when in fact, it’s only supposed to give one.

    You know what I mean?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    All the returned URLs are different. That’s as it should be.

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