I've made this mistake two months running... I fetched in Webmaster Tools a directory page and suggested it followed the links for updated content... The result being that it once again has relegated my content pages and instead ranked the directory page for the search term but lower down. From page one and content page to page 3 and directory page.
This one word phrase indexing is really doing my head in. Why is Google indexing based on one word phrase and even half of the phrase - as it's not side by side, and chucking out the actual content page which is wholly related with on page text, title and metas? I don't understand any more!
Does anyone intelligent work at Google these days? Aside from the person lacking common sense this end who fetched his directory page in the first place, for a second month.
Do I now have to fetch the actual content page again so it knocks the directory page out again? Is this a fools gold algorithm or is it just not working properly?
I'm only messing around in webmaster tools as its robot has gone places it shouldn't have done. Indexing twice as many pages as I actually have and adding wp attachment and other urls which I've now blocked. Which should be blocked as standard, in fact Google shouldn't even go there as it creates dup content and has no value on 90% of wordpress websites. Grrr.
