On 8 Mar 2005 07:37:58 -0800, "Beach Comber"
<BeachNews@worldbeachlist.com> wrote:

>> How long has the site been up? How long has Google been crawling it?
>How
>> many inbound links can you identify?
>
>The site has been up for five weeks.
>
>Google started a deep crawl about two weeks ago. Since then it has
>craweled 15,000 pages. There are a total of about 70,000 pages on the
>site of which about 65,000 are tagged as being valid for indexing.
>5,000 pages are labeled as not being valid for indexing (using robots
>meta tags) to avoid duplicate content.

You want to exclude them with robots.txt. Rather more reliable than
the robots meta tags.

>Using "link:worldbeachlist{dot}com", only one link comes up currently.
>Doing a '"worldbeachlist{dot}com" -site:worldbeachlist{dot}com', 37
>matches are found.

Google has been telling porkies with the link: command for some time.
It doesn't actually mean the pages aren't indexed.

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