Comments on: Blog SEO: Get Your Blog out of the Supplemental Index http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/ Build your business by sharing what you know Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:51:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jas http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-3061 Jas Fri, 04 May 2007 15:29:02 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-3061 My site went from tens of thousands of main index to two in matter of what seems weeks. Supp hell for sure. I'm guessing my server migration ended up on a bad neighborhood IP. I'm going to contact google and see what's up. My site went from tens of thousands of main index to two in matter of what seems weeks. Supp hell for sure. I’m guessing my server migration ended up on a bad neighborhood IP. I’m going to contact google and see what’s up.

]]> By: Jas http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15301 Jas Fri, 04 May 2007 15:29:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15301 My site went from tens of thousands of main index to two in matter of what seems weeks. Supp hell for sure. I'm guessing my server migration ended up on a bad neighborhood IP. I'm going to contact google and see what's up. My site went from tens of thousands of main index to two in matter of what seems weeks. Supp hell for sure. I’m guessing my server migration ended up on a bad neighborhood IP. I’m going to contact google and see what’s up.

]]> By: Nathan http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-3025 Nathan Thu, 03 May 2007 15:20:04 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-3025 Chris, Ever since you published this article I've been trying to figure out why my site had all its pages listed as supplemental. I've had a very robost robots.txt file installed for over a month. The only bad thing was I wasn't using excerpts on my categories. Then today I ran across 2 articles of interest that really explain what might be going on. I'd be curious to see what you think about these: http://www.searchengineguide.com/wallace/2005/0209_dw1.html and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-hell/ - Nathan Chris, Ever since you published this article I’ve been trying to figure out why my site had all its pages listed as supplemental. I’ve had a very robost robots.txt file installed for over a month. The only bad thing was I wasn’t using excerpts on my categories. Then today I ran across 2 articles of interest that really explain what might be going on. I’d be curious to see what you think about these:

http://www.searchengineguide.com/wallace/2005/0209_dw1.html

and

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-hell/

- Nathan

]]> By: Nathan http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15300 Nathan Thu, 03 May 2007 15:20:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15300 Chris, Ever since you published this article I've been trying to figure out why my site had all its pages listed as supplemental. I've had a very robost robots.txt file installed for over a month. The only bad thing was I wasn't using excerpts on my categories. Then today I ran across 2 articles of interest that really explain what might be going on. I'd be curious to see what you think about these: http://www.searchengineguide.com/wallace/2005/0209_dw1.html and http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-hell/ - Nathan Chris, Ever since you published this article I’ve been trying to figure out why my site had all its pages listed as supplemental. I’ve had a very robost robots.txt file installed for over a month. The only bad thing was I wasn’t using excerpts on my categories. Then today I ran across 2 articles of interest that really explain what might be going on. I’d be curious to see what you think about these:

http://www.searchengineguide.com/wallace/2005/0209_dw1.html

and

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-hell/

- Nathan

]]> By: D4n http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2907 D4n Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:41 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2907 The problem with Blogger seems to be the archive pages. If you have the widget to browse by Year / Month and so on, under this you have the item pages, which are fine. They have their own URL's and won't be duplicating any content, providing you don't have every article on your main page. But, if you click on e.g. a Month name, you'll see all articles for that month on one page ... hence the duplication. So the only way around this is to add a meta to the page header for archive pages to get Google to ignore them. Thankfully Blogger allows you to identify archive pages in the template, so it should just be a question of adding the following code somewhere in the section of your template: <b> </b> Will have to see if that helps at all the next time Google comes around. Very useful article ... thanks! The problem with Blogger seems to be the archive pages. If you have the widget to browse by Year / Month and so on, under this you have the item pages, which are fine. They have their own URL’s and won’t be duplicating any content, providing you don’t have every article on your main page. But, if you click on e.g. a Month name, you’ll see all articles for that month on one page … hence the duplication.

So the only way around this is to add a meta to the page header for archive pages to get Google to ignore them. Thankfully Blogger allows you to identify archive pages in the template, so it should just be a question of adding the following code somewhere in the section of your template:

Will have to see if that helps at all the next time Google comes around.

Very useful article … thanks!

]]> By: D4n http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15299 D4n Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:49:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15299 The problem with Blogger seems to be the archive pages. If you have the widget to browse by Year / Month and so on, under this you have the item pages, which are fine. They have their own URL's and won't be duplicating any content, providing you don't have every article on your main page. But, if you click on e.g. a Month name, you'll see all articles for that month on one page ... hence the duplication. So the only way around this is to add a meta to the page header for archive pages to get Google to ignore them. Thankfully Blogger allows you to identify archive pages in the template, so it should just be a question of adding the following code somewhere in the section of your template: <b> </b> Will have to see if that helps at all the next time Google comes around. Very useful article ... thanks! The problem with Blogger seems to be the archive pages. If you have the widget to browse by Year / Month and so on, under this you have the item pages, which are fine. They have their own URL’s and won’t be duplicating any content, providing you don’t have every article on your main page. But, if you click on e.g. a Month name, you’ll see all articles for that month on one page … hence the duplication.

So the only way around this is to add a meta to the page header for archive pages to get Google to ignore them. Thankfully Blogger allows you to identify archive pages in the template, so it should just be a question of adding the following code somewhere in the section of your template:

Will have to see if that helps at all the next time Google comes around.

Very useful article … thanks!

]]> By: Motorcycle Guy http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2904 Motorcycle Guy Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:55:45 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2904 Another thing that could potentially cause this is your wordpress feed being indexed. For some reason google occasionally does this. You're best of blocking it in robots.txt Another thing that could potentially cause this is your wordpress feed being indexed. For some reason google occasionally does this. You’re best of blocking it in robots.txt

]]> By: Motorcycle Guy http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15298 Motorcycle Guy Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:55:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15298 Another thing that could potentially cause this is your wordpress feed being indexed. For some reason google occasionally does this. You're best of blocking it in robots.txt Another thing that could potentially cause this is your wordpress feed being indexed. For some reason google occasionally does this. You’re best of blocking it in robots.txt

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2887 Chris Garrett Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:46:40 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2887 All I can suggest is follow the advice above and in the comments, but the main thing would be to try to get good links to the single pages All I can suggest is follow the advice above and in the comments, but the main thing would be to try to get good links to the single pages

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15297 Chris Garrett Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:46:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15297 All I can suggest is follow the advice above and in the comments, but the main thing would be to try to get good links to the single pages All I can suggest is follow the advice above and in the comments, but the main thing would be to try to get good links to the single pages

]]> By: Mr.Byte http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2883 Mr.Byte Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:30:01 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2883 It seems all the tags page are considered as good ones and the single post page are considered as supplemental :( Only now I understood why I am getting very less hits from Google as I am currently getting very high number of hits from Yahoo and MSN when compared with Google. Any idea, how to make the single posts back to good posts from supplemental? It seems all the tags page are considered as good ones and the single post page are considered as supplemental :( Only now I understood why I am getting very less hits from Google as I am currently getting very high number of hits from Yahoo and MSN when compared with Google. Any idea, how to make the single posts back to good posts from supplemental?

]]> By: Mr.Byte http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15296 Mr.Byte Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:30:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15296 It seems all the tags page are considered as good ones and the single post page are considered as supplemental :( Only now I understood why I am getting very less hits from Google as I am currently getting very high number of hits from Yahoo and MSN when compared with Google. Any idea, how to make the single posts back to good posts from supplemental? It seems all the tags page are considered as good ones and the single post page are considered as supplemental :( Only now I understood why I am getting very less hits from Google as I am currently getting very high number of hits from Yahoo and MSN when compared with Google. Any idea, how to make the single posts back to good posts from supplemental?

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2848 Chris Garrett Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:31:26 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2848 @cyntax - unfortunately Wordpress just does this, anyone know how I can stop the reformatting happening? :o @cyntax – unfortunately WordPress just does this, anyone know how I can stop the reformatting happening? :o

]]> By: Chris Garrett http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15295 Chris Garrett Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:31:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15295 @cyntax - unfortunately Wordpress just does this, anyone know how I can stop the reformatting happening? :o @cyntax – unfortunately WordPress just does this, anyone know how I can stop the reformatting happening? :o

]]> By: mark http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2843 mark Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:13:45 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2843 @Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor: <em>"Apply the ‘nofollow' property on links to archives and other pages with duplicate content."</em> That's not necessary. <a href="http://www.search-this.com/the-archives/">Archives</a> are nothing more than a different way to get to the same spot or post, that's not duplicate content. @Guilherme Zuhlke O’Connor: “Apply the ‘nofollow’ property on links to archives and other pages with duplicate content.”

That’s not necessary. Archives are nothing more than a different way to get to the same spot or post, that’s not duplicate content.

]]> By: mark http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15294 mark Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:13:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15294 @Guilherme Zuhlke O'Connor: <em>"Apply the ‘nofollow' property on links to archives and other pages with duplicate content."</em> That's not necessary. <a href="http://www.search-this.com/the-archives/" rel="nofollow">Archives</a> are nothing more than a different way to get to the same spot or post, that's not duplicate content. @Guilherme Zuhlke O’Connor: “Apply the ‘nofollow’ property on links to archives and other pages with duplicate content.”

That’s not necessary. Archives are nothing more than a different way to get to the same spot or post, that’s not duplicate content.

]]> By: Jeff L. http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2841 Jeff L. Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:19:37 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2841 There is some great information in your post as well as the comments. I've already added a meta and differentiating title to my pages and I'll probably look into the robots.txt as some of your users have suggested. There is some great information in your post as well as the comments. I’ve already added a meta and differentiating title to my pages and I’ll probably look into the robots.txt as some of your users have suggested.

]]> By: Jeff L. http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15293 Jeff L. Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:19:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15293 There is some great information in your post as well as the comments. I've already added a meta and differentiating title to my pages and I'll probably look into the robots.txt as some of your users have suggested. There is some great information in your post as well as the comments. I’ve already added a meta and differentiating title to my pages and I’ll probably look into the robots.txt as some of your users have suggested.

]]> By: cyntax http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2840 cyntax Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:16:43 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-2840 also, if you cut and paste the code above, you will get a syntax error because ofthe slanted quotes try this: "; }else{ echo ""; echo "\n"; } ?> also, if you cut and paste the code above, you will get a syntax error because ofthe slanted quotes try this:

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]]> By: cyntax http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15292 cyntax Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:16:00 +0000 http://www.chrisg.com/blog-seo-get-your-blog-out-of-the-supplemental-index/#comment-15292 also, if you cut and paste the code above, you will get a syntax error because ofthe slanted quotes try this: "; }else{ echo ""; echo "n"; } ?> also, if you cut and paste the code above, you will get a syntax error because ofthe slanted quotes try this:

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