What is Digg?23 Comments
- carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17Does your site have this hosting problem?
Connection failed. - mattmcm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Note: People can visit the site -without- actually digging the story. Incredible concept.
- LordSnooze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7also...
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/docs/en/about.html - voyetra8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Hey genius. Instead of spouting off, maybe you should learn a little bit about what you are talking about. Wordpress, by default, creates multiple ways to access the *same* content from *unique* URLs. This, to Google, appears to be duplicate content. Duplicate content = a Bad Thing.
What this little piece of code claims to do (I haven't tested it) is shut down all but ONE path for Google to see the pages on a Wordpress site. IE- it eliminates the multiple URLs for same content issue. It's not "excluding" these pages from the index- it's just making sure that the robots see only *one* URL for each page.
The bigger issue, however, is that nobody can tell you exactly why pages go supplemental. You will find a lot of educated guesses and speculation, but beyond that... good luck. In addition, there is usually a considerable lag (sometimes up to 1 year) between making changes like this, and seeing the changes reflected in the Google index. And that's assuming that you made the "correct" changes. That's one tough nut to crack. - ogletree, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4When I used that modified plugin and set up my robots.txt my site fell a little bit in the rankings for a few days but then came back with even better rankings. I now only have a few pages in the supp index. They are very short posts that I made. It is very important to have more words on your pages. It really helps to have at least 300-500 words of unique content per page. It also helps to have a unique title and description on each page. That along with more links and links from authority sites is what will get you to rank in Google.
Here are the two blog posts the guy was talking about.
http://www.ogletreeseo.com/157.html
http://www.ogletreeseo.com/146.html
For the person that said this is moronic does not understand what I'm doing. WP creates lots of dup pages. All we are doing is removing them. - sannm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That "site:www.sitename.com ***-view" trick is really useful, I always wondered how to see only my supplemental results
- Whaines, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Hiding blogs from search engines sounds like a great idea to me. =) If only we could hide blogs from digg...
- starf1re, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2amen to that. and from the internet in general.
- tpaine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2dugg mirror has it:
http://duggmirror.com/programming/Does_Your_Site_Have_This_Google_Problem/
edit: hmm, site seems to be up and down - angrykeyboarder, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I give an article diggs because. I like it, find it useful, or find it noteworthy. The subject matter can be anything and doesn't have to apply to me.
- nimawin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3so I'm assuming ppl who dugg this have said YES to the title?
- kickarse, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's also a ror.xml file that Google and other search engines read. And yes there are other search engines.
- joshbachynski, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ummm, this is not quite right IMO. I've been doing Real Estate Related SEO for sometime now.... so take this comment for what it is worth...
If you have duplicate content on your site that is (sometimes) a problem in and of itself, it may get you put in the supplemental index, if some or all of your content has been indexed elsewhere first according to google (which may or may not be correct), but you may just be "hidden" behind the "omitted results" link on the SERPS too.
(sometimes however dup content is not a problem - sometimes it's just different enough that the page is not demoted to the supplemental index (cause it has headers and stuff which are different) or google messes up and doesn't supplementally index it, or because you appear more authoritative google selects YOU as the original content even if you copied it from somewhere else, etc. Dup content is not always bad!!!!)
The problem with being in the supplemental index is the supplemental results are served after the main index are meaning unless it is a very low competition phrase you are not likely to get much traffic from it.
Sollution: get quallity inbound links, to your index page and your main content pages. This makes google think your site is good. Quallity inbound links = page rank = main index = better chance of being seen (relative to your competition, of course).
It has NOTHING to do with a robots.txt file. If your blog makes duplicate content of your site then SO WHAT. If it has been relegated to the supplemental index all that means is people will not likely find it. You STILL want those pages being indexed for their a) links, b) page count. Both of which can help your SEO. - MagickCrafter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sorry but this is Common Sense. I'll prolly get dugg down for saying this, but it's true for anybody who knows just a bit about PHP and Wordpress.
If you don't know much about PHP and Wordpress I guess it is a good article. - grotsasha, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Trying same search as mentionned on the blog (i.e. site:www.mysite.com *** -view ) I get the following Google error page:
We're sorry...
... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.
We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google. - snagz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0If a site goes down and nobody visits it, is it still down?
- BorsKaegel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Maybe the fact that his site is fictitious is why is has been smited.
Quality webhosting FTW! - revmoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Can we not approve articles that are posted in the form of teases?
This isn't CNN, this is a legitimate news source. - kufurex, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Everything else aside, that solution is moronic at best. You should try and fix the pages that are in supplemental index, not exclude them from the engines. It's like cutting your arm off cause you have weak arm muscles.
- iconnor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Parsing input: http://www.chrisg.com/
Host www.chrisg.com (checking ip) = 208.97.180.109
host 208.97.180.109 (getting name) = apache2-lip.willie.dreamhost.com
Is this a dreamhost problem or the guy that wrote the site? - vibez, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18,380 my site www.console-covers.com
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=site%3Awww.console-covers.com+***+-view&btnG=Search&meta= - Nekko17, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2What if it was never up? Ever think about that?
- hyankov, on 10/12/2007, -12/+146 diggs and the site is down. That's a new digg record!
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