With all the talk about duplicate content filtering generating supplemental results pages, I modified http://www.1stpageseo.com/google-site-check.php to query google and produce a listing of only supplemental results pages. Let me know what you think.
How often does Google typically update supp results? I removed a ton of my pages, but they still show up in the search... The pages are gone, gone, gone - but Google still shows them in the search results.
Good is in a mess its showing me some pages in my sites which were removed 1 year back and even the hosting was changed.
What experiences have others had - how long do supp results stick in after they source files are deleted from the server? Is there any way to move this faster?
The only method that worked for me was setting a 410 http status for the gone pages. It can be done by adding this to .htaccess Redirect 410 /xxxDIRxxx/ Code (markup):
This could be really handy, but I'm wondering if you know how to do it in IIS? I've been reading around and messing with my management console and 410 doesn't show up in the custom error/headers list. I've also read a few patch/upgrade notes for IIS 7 saying that 410 may no longer be supported(?). I need basic info that I can give to someone else to do this, given that I don't have access to the management features on our publication servers.
For asp Response.Status = "410 Gone" Code (markup): for php header("Status: 410 Gone"); Code (markup): should work,
This is great - thanks - I will try it out and post the results. We have a directory that was an old programming backup that continues to show in G*. Keeping backup directories on your server = a ticket to supp results.