| What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | bigsitesinc | 2/7/13 4:45 AM | I've read the FAQs and searched the help center. YESMy URL is: Wondering where the option went today in Webmaster Tools > Health > Index Status > Advanced "Not Selected" Is this option removed permanently or is it just today? I use this report a l |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | Pelagic | 2/7/13 10:14 AM | Hi Bigsiteinc, yes it has been removed, as it was just confusing to the majority of WMT users. |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | Pelagic | 2/7/13 12:30 PM | On Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:07:43 UTC, bigsitesinc wrote: The PHP pages of my site are an estimate to me, the html I sure do know the number. But on WMT right now the report says I have over 900 pages in the index when there is no way I have that |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | bigsitesinc | 2/7/13 1:09 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | bigsitesinc | 2/7/13 2:37 PM | Here is a great example why the Not Indexed green line helped me fix issues. Even now, it tells me there are a lot of pages in the index that should not be there since my sites pages are way below 500 (165 html + php generated). I have a forum that h |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | In the bag | 2/7/13 10:50 PM | You had to select "advanced" to see it! Therefore im confused at the decision to remove it based on "it was confusing the majority of WMT users!? |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | StevieD_Web | 2/7/13 11:04 PM | the function combined multiple factors into a single output and as such it was confusing because webmasters could not determine which factors where being display and which ones were not. |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | barryhunter | 2/8/13 8:03 AM | Its probably a little cumbersome to do to find out every single URL's status, but can use sitemaps. A single sitemap will tell you how many urls contained in it are indexed. So create a bunch of sitemap.xml files - one per-section? Make an sitemap i |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | StevieD_Web | 2/8/13 11:16 AM | like Barry, I too have multiple sitemaps (and encourage others to do the same) to quickly verify how deep/fast Google is hitting and indexing the internal pages. |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | bigsitesinc | 2/8/13 11:33 AM | I honestly have no idea what both of you are talking about when you say multiple sitemapos. I do have one sitemap.xml file for the site which includes all html pages and just one reference to my php store, the index page. How can you tell google craw |
| Re: What happened to WT Index Status "Not Selected" option? | barryhunter | 2/9/13 12:32 PM | The page listing all your sitemaps, has a "Submitted" and "Indexed" column. The difference between these two is 'Not Selected' in effect*. (except it only works for URLs you actully list in the sitemap) Rather than submitting a sitemap directly. |