Comments on: One way to avoid Google’s Supplemental Index http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/ Learning how to optimize, one rung at a time. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:13:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: fedmich http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-5588 fedmich Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:48:11 +0000 http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-5588 I also did encoutered massive spiders and spammer attack so I update my robots.txt. I hope this one could protect my site and save me bandwidth per month. Thanks again :) I also did encoutered massive spiders and spammer attack so I update my robots.txt.

I hope this one could protect my site and save me bandwidth per month.

Thanks again

:)

]]> By: You’re a sneaky one Google Sitemap Generator - SEO Ladder http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-59 You’re a sneaky one Google Sitemap Generator - SEO Ladder Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:48:29 +0000 http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-59 [...] I just had a WTF moment… A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on how to avoid Google’s Supplemental Index. I suggested using a robots.txt file to prevent search engine spiders from indexing duplicate [...] […] I just had a WTF moment… A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on how to avoid Google’s Supplemental Index. I suggested using a robots.txt file to prevent search engine spiders from indexing duplicate […]

]]> By: Chris Gray http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-7 Chris Gray Tue, 15 May 2007 14:01:43 +0000 http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-7 Vince, As "SEO minded" as WordPress seems to be, I am surprised that a robots.txt is not part of the default distribution. Three of my WordPress blogs ended up in the supplemental index before I was able to track it down to the lack of a robots.txt. I wasn't aware of your final point (lack of inbound links causing you to end up in the supplemental index). I will have to read up a little more on this one. Vince,

As “SEO minded” as WordPress seems to be, I am surprised that a robots.txt is not part of the default distribution. Three of my WordPress blogs ended up in the supplemental index before I was able to track it down to the lack of a robots.txt.

I wasn’t aware of your final point (lack of inbound links causing you to end up in the supplemental index). I will have to read up a little more on this one.

]]> By: Vince Cordic http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-6 Vince Cordic Mon, 14 May 2007 19:24:34 +0000 http://www.seoladder.com/2007/05/10/one-way-to-avoid-googles-supplemental-index/#comment-6 I made the mistake of not putting a robots file and disallowing access to the feed and what not, and of course I paid for it. I was just too busy messing around with everything else :P But anyhow, because I didn't disallow access to my RSS feed alot of my posts ended up in the supplemental results. However, I also believe pages with very few inbound links also end up in the supplemental results and that could be part of the problem as well. I have seen pages in supplemental results move to the main index after some deep linking to them. However, it usually takes a while. I made the mistake of not putting a robots file and disallowing access to the feed and what not, and of course I paid for it.

I was just too busy messing around with everything else :P

But anyhow, because I didn’t disallow access to my RSS feed alot of my posts ended up in the supplemental results.

However, I also believe pages with very few inbound links also end up in the supplemental results and that could be part of the problem as well.

I have seen pages in supplemental results move to the main index after some deep linking to them. However, it usually takes a while.

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