Title: HELP – Google Cannot Find 1,000 Posts Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # HELP – Google Cannot Find 1,000 Posts * [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/) * Hi, * We have a wordpress website that has 1,200+ posts. * For some strange reason, Google cannot find more than 1,000 posts. It keeps saying they are not found. * I’ve checked the sitemap and everything looks fine…but when I check Google webmaster, the urls are showing up wrong. * Instead of [http://www.domainname.com/name-of-article/](http://www.domainname.com/name-of-article/) it shows * [http://www.domainname.com/name-of-article/category/name-of-category](http://www.domainname.com/name-of-article/category/name-of-category) * I’ve been pulling my hair and cannot figure out what is wrong. * Please HELP!!!! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/page/2/?output_format=md) * [do77](https://wordpress.org/support/users/do77/) * (@do77) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196083) * You should double-check your permalinks settings. * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196100) * Hi, I’ve checked my permalinks and everything seems fine. * They’re set at Month and name * The strange thing is, all new posts get added to Google fine. * The only thing I can remember doing is when we initially setup WordPress, we chose not to have the blog visible and uploaded about 1,000+ articles. Then we had it go live and made it visible. * Does anyone know how we can check into this further……or is there something I am missing? * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196350) * Still nothing. * Google is only indexing anything new we put on the site. * Does anyone have a solution? * What are we doing wrong? * [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) * (@iridiax) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196352) * What is your URL? * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196359) * [http://www.bshare.com.au](http://www.bshare.com.au) * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196360) * What’s in your robots.txt file? Are you blocking parts of the site in your robots. txt file even though you have meta tags that ask for “follow, all?” Or in .htaccess? * [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) * (@iridiax) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196365) * Things look okay to me, and if these URLs are truly 404, then Google will eventually drop them and index the correct URLs. It could be that someone was experimenting around with pretty permalinks settings when Google happened to schedule a full crawl of your site, resulting in lots of 404s. * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196385) * But can’t Google index the correct pages before it removes the old pages? * Also, how often does Google crawl sites? * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196386) * I don’t think we’re blocking anything in robots.txt that is out of the ordinary. * As I said, everything that goes onto the site now gets indexed by Google, but when we had the site “hidden” it seems all of those posts are not indexed. * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196399) * You can g to your Google account, sitemap settings, and crank up the crawl rate to one page per 30 seconds, or better. Google will crawl/recrawl your site much faster. Works for my sites. * [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) * (@iridiax) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196408) * BTW, even with a sitemap, Google will not index every page from a larger site if that site is new or has low PageRank. * [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * (@songdogtech) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196409) * That makes sense; I’ve got fairly high PageRanks gained over the years, with lots of content, and I guess as a result, Google will crawl my sites fast when I turn up the crawl rate. * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196417) * Yes I did crank up the crawl rate to MAX about 1 week ago or more. * Not sure if that made a difference. * One thing I did notice was that the number of Not Found pages has decreased. * But…..the number of indexed posts hasn’t changed. Why? * Is there anything I can do to fix this problem ASAP? * [iridiax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iridiax/) * (@iridiax) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196418) * For removing 404s, see: [http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61062](http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61062) * As for increasing the number of indexed pages, time and increased PageRank will help. * Thread Starter [inspire1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inspire1/) * (@inspire1) * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/#post-1196419) * Thanks, I’ll start removing the 404’s. * Do you know how long it takes? * Also, what do you mean by “time and increased PageRank will help” * How do we do this? Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 24 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘HELP – Google Cannot Find 1,000 Posts’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 24 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/) * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-google-cannot-find-1000-posts/page/2/#post-1196475) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics