Comments on: WordPress and Google Supplemental Index Fix

By: John Morris

John Morris — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:18:17 +0000

This just seems like good theme design to me. Maybe, I’m a little more harsh, because I design themes, but I’ve never understood why a theme designer would put full posts on category, search, or tag pages. The front page… okay, maybe… but, the others… doesn’t really make sense to me.

I doubt you’ll see a plug-in to do this, because it’s such an easy fix in your theme… as Lorelle brilliantly explained. But, then again, maybe!

By: seo blog

seo blog — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:15:41 +0000

Great Article ! Here is another one about getting of supplemental index

http://seomization.blogspot.com/2007/09/supplemental-index.html

By: What is Supplemental Index of Google? | The Associate Reference

What is Supplemental Index of Google? | The Associate Reference — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:40:40 +0000

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By: How To Remove Your Blog Posts From Supplemental Result Index

How To Remove Your Blog Posts From Supplemental Result Index — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:13:17 +0000

[...] As I mentioned in my previous post about having most of my posts in the supplemental result index and that could be from the way a WordPress blog posts are organized. Well, today I’ve implemented an easy solution that only took less than a minute. I’ve found that many other bloggers even famous ones had the same problem. The fix was mentioned on this blog and was actually tried by Jack Humphrey blog here for a month and it appears that it works. So I just made that change and I am going to try it too. [...]

By: Ian is a Failure

Ian is a Failure — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:28:07 +0000

I thought about this before I even got into blogging, I was tired of seeing all the post on one page, and I use another plugin called evermore which does the same thing!

great post!

By: Jack Humphrey

Jack Humphrey — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:06:27 +0000

Michelle,

I was freaked out about taking down full posts on the main page for just that reason. Then I realized something: People know they will get an alert to read recent posts and the vast majority of my traffic comes in through a specific post page that has ranked in the engines or been linked to from myriad places.

This means that most of my readers don’t come in on the front page. Those that do – still a significant number – get to see more titles and get to quickly skim to choose what they want to read rather than having to scroll a lot through whole posts.

You are a different beast. You will actually come here and check on what I am writing before you are alerted via your RSS feed or email that I have posted something new.

While I love that about you and the visitors who do that, you are in the minority. Most people discover the site through a particular post they found through a site link or search engine link.

So far, I am loving the excerpts from an aesthetic point of view because I like that people can check out my latest 12 posts right away without a lot of scrolling.

My readership so far has gone up, but I am not sure if that is because of excerpts. My readership is always on the rise.

My RSS subscribers went up by 200 or so in the last 2 weeks. That can’t have anything to do with excerpts, but it points out that I can’t attribute anything positive with 100% accuracy to excerpts. And I just did it for the duplicate content issue anyway, so any improvement for visitors and readership is a bonus.

So far, I am sticking with the decision to excerpt because I know you’ll get used to it and someday you might get mad at me if I switch back, lol.

By: Michelle MacPhearson

Michelle MacPhearson — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:04:51 +0000

How’s this going Jack? I personally find is maddening to not be able to just read posts, and have to click through to the full thing… Which is why I don’t do it on my own blog. But I see in comments here people saying this change has caused higher readership.

What are your impressions?

By: Jack London, Your Blog, RSS Feed And WordPress 2.2 ... | Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:01:44 +0000

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By: Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:01:08 +0000

Very handy – thank you! The cavemonkey50 in comments No2 is especially helpful – thanks April.

Ray Baker

By: Harry Pickett

Harry Pickett — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:57:46 +0000

Thanks for this great tip Jack. I just posted it on my site (with a link to you of course)as I know some of my visitors will find it a valuable escape from playing in the sandbox!

Harry