Hi All, I keep hearing about supplemental results and don't really know anything about it. Then someone pointed out that on one of my sites most of the pages are supplimental. http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...esforum.com/ Any ideas how I can get them back on the index? Thanks
Supplemental results are indexed pages that aren't important to Google, so they're only showed in a results page if there isn't any other alternative. What is the criterion that uses Google to classify a page as supplemental or not? Nobody outside Google knows well. I had a web site that had 90% of the content as supplemental results. My pages were the same results page with different paging query strings. Don't know if this has something to do. The estrange is that some time after I changed the number of results per page, so the query string unintentionally changed, so I had a big number of new pages. These were correctly indexed as real results. Mystery...
Hi, the site is http://www.asalesforum.com I think many of the site pages and all the forum ones are supplimental
You need each page to have unique meta description tags. Remove the session id's from the forum threads. Also the title on pages like http://www.asalesforum.com/A_S_Get_Connected.htm is not very descriptive. "Articles for sales people" would be better.
I took a quick look and 887 out of 2,710 pages contain session ids which is probably creating some of the duplicates i.e., http://www.asalesforum.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=159 == http://www.asalesforum.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=159&sid=67d2f8510968118b248b872772932d94 I also did a search using snippets from some of your articles and all are resident on other sites so it may be they have all been tagged as duplicate. - Jay Westmark edit: Mad4 beat me too the punch - his advice is sound.
Hi thanks for that guys! This leads to another question though, how do I remove the session ID's? I have installed the "Abletoknow" Mod to the forum, which I thought should have done this (I guess if I installed it right is another matter)
How long ago did you install it? You may need to wait for google to spider the forum again. Also you will need to use htaccess to remove session id's from the urls Google has already indexed.
abletoknow was installed around 3-4 months ago, I seem to remember that it did ask me to edit the ht access then though. That being said the forum was already there for 6 months before I added it
Once google has indexed a page with a session id in the url the only way to remove the page is to 301 it to the equivalent page without the session id.
Well if you use phpbb then you do end up with these issues........ Thats why everybody recommends VB.