Does a website rank better if it has a lot of indexed pages?
Posted on: September 4, 2014
With information overload becoming a pressing problem in the online world, major search engines such as Google has come up with innovations to filter websites for search result ranking. One of the most important questions to answer is on how you can ensure that your website ranks on top of the search result list when users look for the kind of service or information your site offers. A common resort of people in the quest to making their website rank well in Google’s SEO search result is to put in a lot of indexed pages. Is it a guarantee that when your website is fully loaded with pages, it could instantly go on top of the list in search engines?
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In order to know more about site ranking and the truth about ranking better through indexed pages, Google Webmasters answer the following question: “Does a site rank better if it has a lot of indexed pages?”
- It could never be assumed that just because your website has a large quantity of indexed pages, it would automatically get better site ranking.
- More pages in your site would mean you have the opportunity to boost your site ranking only if you have different keywords which may cater to individual queries the users have.
- More pages with links pointing to your site could potentially boost your site ranking.
- If there are more pages with links leading to your site, not only will it mean higher page rank, it would also make Google navigate the site more and consider the pages as good match for specific queries of the search engine users.
In order to get higher SEO ranking, you should:
- Focus on quality content for your users.
- Build pages with different targeted keywords so that it can cater to different queries users have.
- Make sure your site is not overloaded with pages with no targeted keywords that users are looking for.
- Build more links to your pages to get higher page rank.
