Why the number of pages crawled by Google is higher than the number on your site

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Why the number of pages crawled by Google is higher than the number on your site

11-10-2006, 12:19 PM,

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Why the number of pages crawled by Google is higher than the number on your site

Quote:The Googlebot activity reports in webmaster tools show you the number of pages of your site Googlebot has crawled over the last 90 days. We've seen some of you asking why this number might be higher than the total number of pages on your sites.

Googlebot crawls pages of your site based on a number of things including:

* pages it already knows about
* links from other web pages (within your site and on other sites)
* pages listed in your Sitemap file

More specifically, Googlebot doesn't access pages, it accesses URLs. And the same page can often be accessed via several URLs...

full article: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.c...rawls.html

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