More Pages Means More Google Traffic?
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Do more pages mean more Google traffic? We put our own directory on the stand, with 164,748 dental offices listed and 178 pages indexed. Free Dentist Office lists 164,748 dental offices in all 50 states and DC. On October 1, 2026, Google showed 178 of its pages as indexed. The article says plainly there is no happy ending yet. The first version was California only, with 18,460 office pages that were mostly a name, an address, a phone number and a specialty. After the September 2026 spam update began on September 24, average position slid from about 12 to about 18. The fix was a gate. Pages without something of their own stay up for people with a noindex tag. That pulled 16,660 thin pages out of the index on purpose. The page indexing report showed 178 indexed, 20,017 discovered but not indexed, and 0 crawled but not indexed. Google was crawling about 12 URLs a day, which would take close to 20 years to cover 86,000 URLs. Lessons for any site. Count the pages that deserve to exist, read the reason column before you change anything, and let thin pages step back from Google. Receipts and sources: https://clickflame.com/blog/freedentaloffice-indexing-case-study
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Do more pages mean more Google traffic? We put our own directory on the stand, with 164,748 dental offices listed and 178 pages indexed.
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