Why comment pages given more weightage than main article page?

Discussion in 'Google' started by seopower, Mar 11, 2012.

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  1. #1
    Hi Friends,

    I have a petition site where people submit online petitions and can sign petitions. So my site has one main petition page with 30 latest signatures on same page, rest of signatures are available with pager (1, 2, 3, 4 etc).

    The problem is when I search any keyword based on petitions in Google, my pager signature pages comes in SERPs but not the main petition page. Where as complete info is present on main page, so it should be given more weightage than subsequent pages.

    All pages share same title, description, keyword meta tag except title has been appened with (Page 1) , (Page 2) etc, also signature (pager) pages contain a short para of main petition with read more link on it.

    URL's are like:

    Main Page:
    example.com/petition-url-petition.html

    Paging:
    example.com/petition-url-petition-p2.html
    example.com/petition-url-petition-p3.html
    and so on...

    (If moderator allow, then I can share the site urls)

    Thanks,
     
    seopower, Mar 11, 2012 IP
  2. C.Rebecca

    C.Rebecca Active Member

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    Well, Google favors pages which have fresh content. I believe your signature pages are coming up because it is frequently getting fresh content. Where as your main petition page have old static content.
     
    C.Rebecca, Mar 12, 2012 IP
  3. seopower

    seopower Member

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    I dont think that this could be a reson for that as new signatures first populate on main petition page only, so thats the page which gets fresh content first and keeps on updating, also most of the signatures contain same text as "I support this petition" but still they are being given more value.

    I have implemented rel=next, rel=prev meta tags to have a relationship but still I dont see any login for google to give more importance to signature pages.
     
    seopower, Mar 12, 2012 IP
  4. WishBone

    WishBone Peon

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    If you are going to notice how Google display results, they have variety of result from different manner of that keyword which gives visitor better option to see what they are looking for. Ex. a term like "dog", Google result probably has different result from dog breed, dog definition, forums about dog, social sites about dog, etc.
     
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    vacationcluster Peon

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    Google consider fresh and quality content ...
     
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  6. imranamen6

    imranamen6 Active Member

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    Exactly comments are indexed frequently because it is a fresh content but the article is as is when it was crawled earlier.
     
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    lightlysalted Active Member

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    I agree that the fresh content aspect is important to Google, and it makes senses that comments pages would be must relevant
     
    lightlysalted, Mar 13, 2012 IP