Breaking Code
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It’s like “Breaking Bread” but for geeks.
So, while in my morning prep for all the stuff I want to get done today – things like taking a teleclass for continuing education credits for my Coaching, and writing several newsletter articles, I looked at my iGoogle home page and saw an interesting snippet by Chris G about affiliate marketing. I clicked, read, and scrolled down for other reads by one of my favorite bloggers.
I clicked on one about getting your site out of Google’s supplemental index. Fabulous read, fabulous tip, with a snippet of code to try.
Highlight. Copy. Login. Select header. Paste. Save. Done.
Or so I thought.
A half hour of Parse errors, troubleshooting, gritting my teeth, and trying to fix my blog later, I gave up and went to the original code that CG tweaked. I clicked through to Ogletree.
Almost a year ago, now, Ogletree posted the awesome snippet of code that should work to let Google’s bots not see you as plagiarizing yourself with duplicate content.
Highlight. Copy. Login. Select header. Paste. Save. Done.
And it works.
What I love about the bloggosphere – geeks from all over the world can network and help each other out and have a conversation in a language that is foreign to many and international to some.
2 comments
Pages don’t go into the Supplemental Results Index because they are duplicates. That’s an SEO myth based on a misunderstanding of how Google originally used the old Supplemental Results Index.
Today’s Supplemental Results Index is where Google places the majority of Web content — most of which is unique. Documents only reach the Main Web Index after Google finds enough value-passing links pointing to them. The number of links varies because of their internal PageRank (Google does not publish internal PageRank and the Toolbar PR values are worthless for determining whether links pass value).
Duplicate content MAY land in the Supplemental Results Index simply because there are too few links pointing to it, but telling Google not to index your date archive pages won’t increase the number of links pointing to your posts or blog.
Also, there are no reliable queries that show you which of your pages are in the Supplemental Results Index. Nor was the query that people were using in 2007 ever a reliable test (the query had people performing a site search and subtracting out garbage).
Generally speaking, a page in the Supplemental Results Index will not:
1) Pass link anchor text to other pages
2) Be cached very often
3) Be found for unique expression queries (unless the queries use rare words)
4) Be shown first if they are the most relevant pages for a given query
Google has mislead people about the impact that being in the Supplemental Results Index has on their search visibility. Unfortunately for searchers and Web publishers alike, any page that is in the Supplemental Results Index will be shown AFTER less relevant pages in the Main Web Index.
It doesn’t matter what you do with your blog software — that won’t change the way Google currently works.
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