Extracting Google-Indexed Web Site Pages Using MS Excel - Explaining the Results
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The above steps should filter rows and leave only rows containing the following domain name URL: www.aspfree.com and cached link.
After filtering the rows, select the result of the filtered rows and copy and paste that into another Excel worksheet.
The result of the filtered rows should have information somewhat like this:
www.aspfree.com/ - 75k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.aspfree.com/c/b/XML/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.aspfree.com/c/b/IIS/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.aspfree.com/asp/freeasphost.asp - 77k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.aspfree.com/c/b/Silverlight/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.aspfree.com/c/b/BrainDump/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages -
www.aspfree.com/c/b/ASP/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages -
At this point, the results are not yet the indexed URLs, as they contain unrelated data, such as the file size of the web page (75k, for example) and other stuff.
What we will do is extract only the URLs in the rows, so for example in this data:
www.aspfree.com/c/b/BrainDump/ - 47k - Cached - Similar pages -
We will extract only the URL so that it will now be:
www.aspfree.com/c/b/BrainDump/
To do that in MS Excel, you will have to use the function:
=CONCATENATE("http://",MID(A1,1,(FIND(" ",A1,1))-1))
So after filtering the information and copying that to another sheet as instructed in the previous steps, copy and paste that formula into cell B1, with your filtered data in cell A1.
Column B in the Excel worksheet will now give the indexed URLs. If the data to be filtered is placed starting in cell A1, make sure that the formula is placed in cell B1, and it will be:
=CONCATENATE("http://",MID(A1,1,(FIND(" ",A1,1))-1))
Click and drag the formula until all data are correctly filtered for clean URLs.
The only disadvantage with this method is that the results will be inaccurate for long URLs. So after filtering and applying text manipulation using Excel, it will be useless because Google displays dots for long URLs at the end. For example:
www.somewebsite.com/this.../should-be-a-very-very-long-url-which-google-will-display-properly-and-will-makefiltering-hard...
In this case, you have to open it manually using the browser to extract URLs for what is shown exactly in the address bar. Having long URLs is not recommended, as it tends to look unfriendly and spammy for search engines. In this case, consider shortening the URLs in your website.
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