Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
- www. has been 301 to non-www.
- /folder/index.html is 301 to /folder/.
- My forum has been disallowed in robots.txt to prevent the session IDs Google already found from being a problem.
- I've searched the site for linking irregularities and have found none.
- I'm not linking to any bad neighborhoods, as far as I can tell.
I have several hundred indexed pages, not supplemental, although only a few of them rank in the Top 10 for their keywords. Hundreds more pages that are supplemental, and do not seem to rank at all. All of the pages have unique titles, most have unique meta tags, and the ones that didn't have unique meta tags have had the similar tags deleted.
Should I be seeing improvement? If not, how long should I wait to see improvement? At this point, I am continuing to update pages with new meta descriptions, but I've seen some with the updated descriptions are showing as cached with new dates, but still supplemental. Do "fixed" pages stay in supplemental for a period of time before the supplemental is dropped, even when they've been "fixed"?
I don't want to be in too much of a hurry, but I also don't want to wait too long to make changes. I need to revive this site, it's been down for 2 years now, and not working on it for over a year hasn't helped.
One thing you didn't mention was xenu - always worth running a thoro navigation check.
Start a spreadsheet of selected searches; keywords, site.com and a unique phrase or two from the site. Record by date what happens, then you'll see how you are progressing.
I'd start a new effort at getting incoming links from quality sites.
You don't mention the site's content; have you had many duplicate content issues? small content per page? code bloat? lots of shared content among all the pages?
Content issues are often key to supplementary listings.
If you have some pages scoring top ten, then likely from here it's just a steady grind developing your content to get a few more pages doing that well. Top ten is good!
