Supplemental Results Check List - The Bottom Line

Supplemental Results Check List

[Whitey]

Any takers to add something on supplemental result management to support these great outlines:

A Dropped Site Check List [webmasterworld.com]

26 Steps to 15k a Day [searchengineworld.com]

It looks like someone with the skills would be able to articulate [ not me! ] what practices are resolved and what's outstanding in a current check list on this subject.

[edited by: tedster at 11:25 pm (utc) on Mar. 10, 2006]
[edit reason] fix link [/edit]

[tedster]

Check the new post from GoogleGuy - there is a problem and he thinks they have a fix:

[webmasterworld.com...]
Message #176

[Whitey]

This is a problem if you have re organised yourselves to try and get around the "supp" problem. This is the giste passed to me from another forum [sorry i don't know where].

“I have looked into this problem on one site and found all pages in the supplemental index are old pages that no longer exist (due to a site reorganization eight months ago) and which were 301'd to a new location with new content in most cases.

I verified that clicking on the supplemental listed link does take you to the new page and that it does return a proper 301 response, so it looks like this is a case of Google not handling 301's correctly.”

..... ouch! Has anyone anything to say?

[Grinler]

I disagree entirely. Almost all my pages in the supp i index are actually forum 302 pages that use an old link scheme. They belong there. The reality is that for whatever reason the active pages were dropped..proably more from a bug than anything else. Seeing supp pages is now just a byproduct of all your normal pages being dropped from the index.

301s are working fine when examining my access logs. I see googlebot crawl an url, get a 301, 2 secs later crawl the new url with a 200 request code.

Works like it is supposed to.

[Whitey]

I'll pm you with the link which i've been able to obtain through my SEO

[watercrazed]

My site has all the classic signs of BD supplemental issue.

However, if I do a specific enough search ie keyword phase site:mydomain.com I can find some of my "good" pages with good urls, but the cache date is june-Aug 2005. On the Non-BD site the cache dates on those pages are current.

[watercrazed]

Just to clarify,
the "good pages" with good urls, were also supplemental

BTW I would also be interested in seeing the link you reffered to.