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loopy62
Jun 23rd 2006, 10:25 am
Look at the following crawl from googlebot:
Is this normal? Googlebot is scrambling my site and thus it's giving me supplemental results. grrrr!!!




/Society/Celebrity/Internet/Forum/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 05:07:29 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 26396
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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/Sports/Travel/Insurance/Mortgage/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 05:07:30 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 8509
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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/Sports/Travel/Education/Colleges/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 05:07:30 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 9738
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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/Society/Celebrity/Leisure/Travel/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 05:07:31 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 36872
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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/Sports/Travel/Regional/Countries/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 05:07:31 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 8510
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
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/Society/Celebrity/Insurance/Life/
Http Code: 200 Date: Jun 23 05:07:32 Http Version: HTTP/1.1 Size in Bytes: 8493
Referer: -
Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
collegebarscene
Jun 23rd 2006, 11:26 am
I'm getting Supplimental results for a lot of pages in google as well. I'm not sure what's up. The pages are valid and everything, but they're showing up as supplimental.
Confuscius
Jun 23rd 2006, 11:35 am
One of the common reasons for seeing this at the moment is that in crawling your pages then Google has, in many cases, corrupted what they are showing on their results sets in relation to title tags - check that the titles shown are what is actually on your site. I have many personal experiences of this phenomenon and it affects both new and older sites alike. If you are using long titles then you will not see the phenomenon.
wibr
Jun 23rd 2006, 11:40 am
One of the common reasons for seeing this at the moment is that in crawling your pages then Google has, in many cases, corrupted what they are showing on their results sets in relation to title tags - check that the titles shown are what is actually on your site. I have many personal experiences of this phenomenon and it affects both new and older sites alike. If you are using long titles then you will not see the phenomenon.


Hi Confuscius,

So I should increase my page titles? By how much? I can always throw a few more keywords in'em. Page specific keywords of course. Just asking because I'm desperately looking for an answer to supplemental hell. I'm in it, and I want out!
Confuscius
Jun 23rd 2006, 4:06 pm
A slight misunderstanding! My experience is that short titles that are relevant to the page content and do not contain superfluous and irrelevant words tend to perform best and if you adopt this particular approach site wide then you will theme your site in a very natural way.

The point about long page titles that I referred to is simply the fact that IF your page titles are long then you may not be able to see if Google has generated an error in compiling its visible version of your page titles because Google only shows a limited number of title characters when you view a page osf search results - I hope that makes it clearer. If you can see the error then what you will normally see is your original page title with some extra words added on the end and in virtually every case that I have seen then these extra words are the first visible content (or anchor link text) from your webpage content.