Comments on: Dragging Your Pages From Googles Supplemental Index

By: matt

matt — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:03:13 +0000

Another great article about supplemental index
http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/09/supplemental-index.html

By: Vincent Harrison

Vincent Harrison — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:39:31 +0000

It’s quite complicated staying on top of SEO, isn’t it?

Thanks for the good material!

Vincent Harrison
http://coolmarketingproducts.blogspot.com

By: AskApache

AskApache — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 19:45:26 +0000

Nicely done Ade, I hadn’t thought about changing the number of words or anything like that!

Also the robots.txt file you are using above is originally from my post at http://www.askapache.com/seo/wordpress-robotstxt-seo.html

Just yesterday I published an updated robots.txt file which I am still tweaking. http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:43:05 +0000

Another excellent article, Ade. I have been working on rescuing a few hundred of my pages from the dreaded supplemental index. So far, things seem to be going well, thanks to insightful articles such as this one. I am currently dissecting the article’s robots.txt rules and comparing them with my own. Lots of great stuff there - I had better get on with it then!

By: Ade Martin

Ade Martin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:02:17 +0000

Thanks Yosinda,

Pages read. I think Angellica is a Stomper.

By: yosinta

yosinta — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:41:11 +0000

Maybe these links could be useful for your reference to avoid supplemental result:

http://www.angellica2017.com/tips-how-to-avoiding-supplemental-result-in-wordpress-1
http://www.angellica2017.com/tips-how-to-avoiding-supplemental-result-in-wordpress-2
http://www.angellica2017.com/how-to-know-duplicate-content-and-supplemental-index
http://www.angellica2017.com/how-to-optimizing-robotstxt-for-seo

Sorry… I’m not spamming
Just share knowledge from other sources….

By: Ade Martin

Ade Martin — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:17:00 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. You know I have been looking into this Supplemental Index problem with WP blogs for ages and your couple of posts have, I think, just about brought me to the end of my journey - at least until the next Google or WP update anyway

Checking up on the /tags issue appears to be good information so it’s worth acting on. Why WordPress themselves put this information in I’ll never know. Just goes to show you can’t even trust the owners!

Never thought of a duplicate content plugin for WP and I have found another one which I think will suit my purposes better called All In One SEO Pack at: http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/

There is also a lot of information on this plugin due to the 744 comments posted. Wow! That’s a full time job…

It appears that there is not one single to the problem of WP and duplicate content. You need a combination of a 2 plugins and also a robots.txt file

Ubedose from uberdose.com recommends http://fucoder.com/code/permalink-redirect/ and a robots.txt looking like:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-
Disallow: /feed
Disallow: /comments/feed
Disallow: /feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/trackback/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/feed/rss/$
Disallow: /*/*/*/trackback/$

(This is turning into a post not a comment)

So now we have the feed, category, archives, 301’s taken care of leaving the tags and other bits of goodness for the SE’s to spider.

Let’s see how this lot works out.

Ade

By: Face Natural

Face Natural — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:01:48 +0000

There is a duplicate content plugin–

http://www.seologs.com/wordpress-duplicate-content-cure/

By: Sante

Sante — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:43:23 +0000

I’d be very careful using:

Disallow: /tag

Removing archives is fine, but I would definitely avoid removing tag pages - Big G seems to like them very much nowadays and it’s best to leave it up to her to decide whom should go supplemental …