Supplemental Results

Google Search "Supplemental Results"

[ak47mars]

Does anyone know what "Supplemental Result" means when you do a search on google?

[g1smd]

You need a 301 redirect from wwww.domain.com to www.domain.com to match the one that you should already have from domain.com to www.domain.com and you might as well add another to take care of ww.domain.com too while you're at it.

[cleanup]

Thanks G1smd,

Sorry but I have to ask just one more question.

What really is the difference to the search engines between [site.com...] and [site.com...]

?

[blend27]

g1smd - how about just plain :

<meta name="G**GLEBOT" content="noindex,nofollow">
<meta name="G**GLEBOT" content="noarchive">

on anything thitg is wrong? would that do the trick?

[g1smd]

The difference between www.domain.com and www.domain.com/ is that if you try to access the first one, you are redirected to the second one, but VIA the defaultservername first. That is, if your defaultservername is domain.com but you have chosen to to use www.domain.com then an access to that URL will first be automatically redirected by the server to domain.com/ before being redirected to www.domain.com/. This also applies to any links like www.domain.com/folder where you are redirected to domain.com/folder/ and then finally to the www.domain.com/folder/ that you wanted. Always add the trailing / to domain or folder URLs.

The meta noindex tag is of no use here, because all of the content that appears to be at various domains is all being served from the same physical folder on the server. Adding a noindex tag there adds that tag for that page on every domain and subdomain of the site. There is no way to "noindex" just one version. The redirect is the correct thing to do. The redirect says "don't index this URL - do that one over there instead".