Getting your directory out of Supplemental Results.

Discussion in 'Directories' started by banless, Mar 24, 2007.

  1. toby

    toby Notable Member

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    #21
    guys, why would 301 redirect from non www to www is helpful? I'm confused.
     
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  2. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    #22
    Its all about duplicate content...
    Google treat www.domain.com and domain.com as two sites.
     
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  3. popotalk

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  4. toby

    toby Notable Member

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    #24
    thanks popotalk,

    but what is the 301 redirect has to do with getting out of suplement. that is the question.
     
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  5. popotalk

    popotalk Notable Member

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    #25
    http : // toby. com is different from http: //www.toby .com

    so if you are using www. toby.com there are different results.
     
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  6. kh7

    kh7 Peon

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    #26
    the www redirect thing isn't necessary. Just get a google webmasters account, get the site in there, and tell them what the preferred domain is.
     
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  7. sparckyz

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    #27
    Thanks for the redirect 301 and the hiding of index.php ;)
     
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  8. toby

    toby Notable Member

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    #28
    hmmm.. i thought as long as there is no different inbound link to http: // toby.com that would be fine.

    Well, anyway, it's little out of discussion here. and thanks for explaining,popo.
     
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  9. popotalk

    popotalk Notable Member

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    #29
    That's ok too. I used that one in all my sites.

    Thanks kh7.
     
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  10. Aragorn

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    #30
    A directory I had coded was facing the problem. I will certainly try your suggestion. Thanks a lot :)
     
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  11. malcolm1

    malcolm1 Prominent Member

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    #31
    Very well done...

    Not sure if this was mentioned but...

    1. filling in the catagory descriptions and also the meta description will work to help as well....
    2. adding keywords to those directories catagories will achieve nice results

    thx
    malcolm
     
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  12. casperl

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    #32
    Another exactly from me :) Check my directory as an example, until i add my trusted backlink, it had lots of supplemental pages. And now :) new pages are detected almost immediately and i dont think there are any supplemental pages :)
     
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  13. Solicitors Mortgages

    Solicitors Mortgages Well-Known Member

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    #33
    Someone care to take a moment to explain why that is better?

    Thanks. :)
     
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  14. enQuira

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    #34
    Simply because you are redirecting index.php to / as well.

    I may add, to help with supplemental results try to require or come up yourself with unique descriptions of the submitted links. webmaster are too lazy to modify the description everytime they submit to a directory. But it is beneficial to both, how good is a link if you know that the page you are submitting to is going to be supplemental.
     
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  15. amitpatel_3001

    amitpatel_3001 Results Follow Patience

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    #35
    Just find this >

    Options +FollowSymLinks
    RewriteEngine on


    and add below that :)

    # Rewrite index.php to /
    RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.(php|html?)\ HTTP/
    RewriteRule ^index\.(php|html?)$ http://www.yoursite.com/ [R=301,L]

    # Rewrite non www to www
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite\.com
    RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    No idea about this :)

    What can be done for these kind of pages which dont exist but still show as supplementals -
    w ww.directory.com/rss.php?c=175&start=1&s=H
    Any option to avoid these
     
    amitpatel_3001, Mar 25, 2007 IP
  16. banless

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    #36
    Good question, and to be honest I have no clue.
     
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  17. amitpatel_3001

    amitpatel_3001 Results Follow Patience

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    #37
    We need a expert on this issue ;) because when we disable rss feature in our directory still these rss pages show out in SE's and iam not able to figure out how to disable them in eyes of SE's too :(
    One of my PR4 directory has many of those =(
     
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  18. banless

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    #38
    You could try blocking access to those pages using the robots.txt file, that may or may not help, it is worth a try though.
     
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  19. amitpatel_3001

    amitpatel_3001 Results Follow Patience

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    #39
    Do you have the code for that?
    Amit
     
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  20. banless

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    #40
    This code will block the search engine spiders from visting certain parts of your website.

    User-agent: *
    Disallow: /place the name of the folder here/

    Save it as robots.txt and then upload it to the root directory of your site.
     
    banless, Mar 25, 2007 IP