Does more indexed pages mean more traffic?

13 years ago

If there was some kind of standardized ratio, everyone would be building thousands of pages on their website. It isn't that simple of an answer.

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xdrange

13 years ago

Thank you guys for your replies.

I understand the fact that the number of indexed pages does not directly influence the amount of traffic you'll receive from Google. What really matter is the ranking for each individual pages on search results and the search volume of those ranked keywords that the pages are optimized for.

The reason why I am asking this is that...there's a so-called SEO expert argued that we have over 500k indexed pages, then we are supposed to have at least 5k+ visits per day, this is the standard ratio (his claim). And he thinks there's something fundamentally wrong with our site structure and on-page SEO. But in reality, I think we do just fine with the on-page stuff, and the site structure is solid. There is definitely room for improvement. But it is not the major reason for not getting enough traffic. The most important reason for that is because we have a REALLY weak backlink profile.

But I kinda have a pretty hard time convincing them. Now our management team has been fully convinced by this so-called SEO expert.

Could you guys help me out? I'd really appreciate that. Thanks.

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panic

13 years ago

Originally Posted by xdrange

The reason why I am asking this is that...there's a so-called SEO expert argued that we have over 500k indexed pages, then we are supposed to have at least 5k+ visits per day, this is the standard ratio (his claim). And he thinks there's something fundamentally wrong with our site structure and on-page SEO. But in reality, I think we do just fine with the on-page stuff, and the site structure is solid. There is definitely room for improvement. But it is not the major reason for not getting enough traffic. The most important reason for that is because we have a REALLY weak backlink profile.

But I kinda have a pretty hard time convincing them. Now our management team has been fully convinced by this so-called SEO expert.

Could you guys help me out? I'd really appreciate that. Thanks.

There is NO standard ratio. That doesn't even make sense. Like you said a high ranking for a search term that gets no searches will bring you 0 traffic. If you have 500k pages indexed but noone is interested in the content you won't get searches.

Just nail the guy on that search ratio thing, you only need to make a strong point about one thing to discredit the so called expert.

That being said....with that much content maybe you should be getting more traffic?

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MikeFriedman

13 years ago

Originally Posted by xdrange

Thank you guys for your replies.

I understand the fact that the number of indexed pages does not directly influence the amount of traffic you'll receive from Google. What really matter is the ranking for each individual pages on search results and the search volume of those ranked keywords that the pages are optimized for.

The reason why I am asking this is that...there's a so-called SEO expert argued that we have over 500k indexed pages, then we are supposed to have at least 5k+ visits per day, this is the standard ratio (his claim). And he thinks there's something fundamentally wrong with our site structure and on-page SEO. But in reality, I think we do just fine with the on-page stuff, and the site structure is solid. There is definitely room for improvement. But it is not the major reason for not getting enough traffic. The most important reason for that is because we have a REALLY weak backlink profile.

But I kinda have a pretty hard time convincing them. Now our management team has been fully convinced by this so-called SEO expert.

Could you guys help me out? I'd really appreciate that. Thanks.

Your "expert" is an idiot. Just a complete freaking moron. That is the 2nd dumbest thing I have read today.

Your company needs someone that actually knows something about SEO, not the clown they are working with now.

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david87

13 years ago

Yes, more pages are index in Google means more chances to get traffic.But if you want to generate a particular amount of traffic like 1000 visitors/ day then you will have to get all indexed pages in ranking.But any page can not get ranking until indexed in Google. You will have to work hard to get all indexed pages in ranking only then your website will able to generate 1k visitors/day.

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davidfrankk

13 years ago

It has no direct relation. A friend of mine had a site with just one page which was the landing page. That page used to get about 10000 visits a day where as another popular website with hundred pages but the whole website would get about 1000 visits.

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RobinInTexas

13 years ago

The raw number of indexed pages is not consequential.

What matters is the SERP of each page. If you can rank several pages in the top 10 for a given keyword you will get A LOT more traffic than if you only have one page there.

If you have a page that is #3 you will get some traffic. If you get another page to rank #5 or 6 for the same term, you will get much more traffic, and some of the additional traffic will have clicked on the #3 as a result on noticing the second result below the one they clicked

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Dokemion

13 years ago

Try check theshortcutts.com for questions like this. I'm pretty sure you won't be asking such nonsense question again in this forum.

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Hansons

13 years ago

One of my site has around 200 posts, all are indexed but no traffic.

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SEODollz

13 years ago

Could be a lot of those pages aren't really content pages but category pages etc. You can't expect much traffic to land there. Hard to know without seeing the site.

Onsite is really important when you have that big of a site though. Maybe you should see what your "expert" is recommending and go from there.

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patco

13 years ago

No, you can have thousands of indexed pages and less than 100 visits per day and also 5 indexed pages and 5,000+ per day

It all depends on the keywords you are ranking and if those keywords are being used in your pages (that you said you tried to index)

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xdrange

13 years ago

Thanks guys. Very much appreciated.

Just for the record though, I totally understand that there is no direct relation between the number of indexed pages between the amount of traffic you receive. There're a lot of factors come into play when measuring where you are right now and what the next step is as far as your SEO strategy is concerned.

A couple of things may affect your SEO performance:
1. The number of indexed pages
2. Whether or not is the content on each indexed page unique
3. Proper on-page optimization
4. Backlink profile
5. Keyword competitiveness and search volume
6. and more...

I started this particular thread was mainly because there's a so-called SEO expert claims that there should be a standard ratio between the # of indexed pages and the amount of traffic received. And he managed to convince the boss...this is pretty frustrating stuff.... Do you guys have any experience with this? How did you handle this kind of situation? Thanks.

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KingRoyal

13 years ago

This is a great question, because my website auto generates THOUSANDS of web pages that get indexed for very low use keywords, and together, for the 77.5 K pages indext, I get about 120K uniques per month