Indexing Issue of Dynamic Pages

[SameerBhatia]

Hi All,

I have a query for which i am struggling to find out the answer.

I unable to retrieve URL using "site:" query on Google SERP. However, when i enter the direct URL or with "info:" query then a snippet appears. I am not able to understand why google is not showing URL with "site:" query.

Whether the page is indexed or not? Or it's soon going to be deindexed.

Secondly, I would like to mention that this is a dynamic URL. The index file which we are using to generate this URL is not available to Google Bot.

For instance, There are two different URL's.

http://www.abc.com/browse/ --- It's a parent page.
http://www.abc.com/browse/?q=123 --- This is the URL, generated at run time using browse index file.

Google unable to crawl index file of browse page  as it is unable to run independently until some value will get passed in the parameter and is not indexed by Google. Earlier the dynamic URL's were indexed and was showing up in Google for "site:" query but now it is not showing up.

Can anyone help me what is happening here?

Please advise.

Thanks

[SameerBhatia]

Thanks Steve.  I agree that the site: query is not working in an appropriate manner. But I have noticed that the pages indexed by google are showing up in SERP with site: query .

I have checked new GSC and found that few pages are not indexed for my website, when I searched these pages in Google using "info:" query, it appears.

It concluded that the pages which are not indexed by Google will not appear for "site:" query but can appear for "info:" query.

site: Indexed by Google

info: Known by Google

Moreover, making root file available to bot makes structure search friendly but what if we don't make this file available to bot? Will my other dynamic pages get affected which are generated through this file?

Please advice.

Thanks

[slatronica]

Recently @JohnMu mentioned that site: is not reliable to check pages in index. The new GSC should help you better understand how Google is seeing and valuing your content.

Regardless can you change it so that root file without params is a page that has value? and potentially a page that provides a means of navigation to your parameterized results? This would be a more search friendly setup IMO.