Google has published yet another novice/beginning SEO video around what metrics Google has available to measure your index count in Google, i.e. the number of pages Google indexed from your web site. As you all know, there are three primary ways to do this, including the site command, the Search Console index status report and the Sitemap report. Google has forever told people not to use the site command and stick with the Search Console report.

Here is John Mueller from Google explaining it in the SEO Snippets videos series.

Here is the video transcript:

I love that Google is doing these but I am looking forward to some of the more advanced Q&As.

Forum discussion at Twitter.