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If I do a site:www.mydomain.com search on the Goog I get nothing but supplemental results until I hit the "show ommitted results link". From here, I get the same supplemental results, but after that my regular, non-supplimental pages appear!
A little background: most of my supplimental results are either orphaned or are dynamic links generated by my "force into frames" jscript code and should be supplemental as they are not the proper link to the page.
My question is why is Googlepuss putting the GOOD results from my site: query at the BOTTOM?
Is it part of the site: bug, a symptom of flux, a sign of improvement (since BigDaddy I'd been getting very few non-supp results)? Thoughts? Theories?
Do the 'show extra' entries all show same snippet as some prior result(s)?
A search for site:www.example.com/ with the trailing slash brings up all my good, non-supp pages and there's not even a link to omitted results or any supps in the list. Only about 1/3 of my sites pages seem to be indexed here though.
inurl:www.example.com pulls up a couple of non-supp pages and then a "more results from" link, followed by an inbound link and an "omitted results" link. "More Results" pulls up a list similar to site: with the trailing slash. So does "Omitted Results" but with that external site in the mix for a few pages. If I add a trailing slash, I get the same results as without.
Additionally, a search for http://www.example.com/page_I_just_saw_in_site_search_with_slash.html gives me "sorry, no info" with a link.
Right now, our site's index page gets top rank for our company name, but any internal pages begin at #10 where they used to be #2. It's been like this since BigDaddy. We're lucky (ha) if we get 6 refs from the Goog per day although we're content rich, been around for years, blah blah blah.
Anyone gleen what's happening or how I can find out? Is it a good/bad idea to contact Google directly? My zen-like patience is wearing thin as an old monk's tunic.
Vanessa Fox posted about this on the Google Sitemaps blog only a few days ago. It is a known bug in the new system. Another part of the same bug affects hyphenated domains, they too are not showing up properly.
I did a search for inurl: and the only links outside of my domain are a database we are listed in and it's their pages listing articles by our authors. The rest of my links are non-supp (today).
Just noticed this morning that our domain is showing up like it used to for a search on our domain name and some keyword & unique phrase searches are pulling up supp's and non-supp's. There's still some junk listings though and rankings are in the gutter, but maybe it's a sign of Google fixing things.
daveVk, are you saying my pages not being indexed right now may be part of the Big Daddy problems or should I work on getting them re-indexed myself?
The site in question is a PR4 for the index page (frameset), and the main homepage is a PR5. We get crawled almost every day by Googlebot. (shrugs)
A few of the supps are also incorrect links to pages caused by my framebuster script, which makes a link like this:
http://www.example.com/index.html?page.html
which is actually the exact same page as
http://www.example.com/page.html, just loaded into my frameset.
Why would Goog prefer http://www.example.com/index.html?page.html to http://www.example.com/page.html, which is obviously a natural link? The way Google indexes the bogus links seem to indicate they know it's not the "real" link. Link link link! (sorry had to say 'link' a few more times there).
Am I in the penalty box? Anyone got a similar story?
