Nearly half way through writing unique descriptions and keywords for every page, should be done in the next few days, 301 will be set up tommorow and I have disabled RSS.
I'm seeing close to 800 supplemental pages for the directory in your signature. Utilizing unique descriptions, keywords, title and content is not an assurance that you won't end up with supplemental pages. Using the above with external inbound links to deep categories might help reduce the number of pages which are classed as supplemental. One thing that I have noticed lately is pages that are shown as supplemental when performing a site: search are not always listed as supplemental in the search results. It appears that it's not the result of differing data centers so we're trying to look closer at this. I'd imagine that the larger a directory is, the larger the number of supplemental pages. The suggestions provided will work to your benefit and can help with recovering pages from the supplemental index. The single largest factor we're noticing is the quality of inbound links. Try getting some better quality deeplinks, and don't concentrate so much on you home page that you lose sight of the larger picture.
Hello... Im in bad shape as i cant get mine out off supplemental on sleek as ive tried and tried and these last 2 wont come out thx malcolm
Pssst...there's quite a few more than just 2 (but mostly from the sorting option and canonicalization ).
heheheheh ok thx im on it hahaahh Im still having over 10,000 indexed which most cant get close to but, im a perfectionist so ill have them all out soon enough... thx malcolm
man you take all the fun out of stuff creed.... yes im on it im on it...heheheheh thx for the reminder.. thx malcolm
heheheheheh You know i just need a reality check from time to time good lookin out fellas sorry got carried away... time to get away from the PC for a day or 2 thx malcolm
For directories, are search engine results the main source for traffic? Does it bring you traffic at all? There so many out there I wouldn't even know where to start to compete. For a niche dir, then thats different, you may actually have a chance at getting visits from surfers searching G, but general directories? How much traffic do you get from Google?
at robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: /*? "Google respects this, but for example MSN doesn’t care."