Comments on: How To Get Your Site Out Of The Supplemental Index -Krishna De http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/ Search Engine Optimisation Ireland Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:00:38 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Richard Hearne http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1663 Richard Hearne Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:50:34 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1663 Krishna, just to re-clarify - I *think* that the only issue was the learningzone calendar. I'm not so sure about the WP calendar. It may or may not be causing issues. But the priority is to block access to learningzone in your robots.txt. Rgds Richard Krishna, just to re-clarify – I *think* that the only issue was the learningzone calendar. I’m not so sure about the WP calendar. It may or may not be causing issues. But the priority is to block access to learningzone in your robots.txt.

Rgds
Richard

]]> By: Krishna De http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1662 Krishna De Thu, 12 Apr 2007 23:41:14 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1662 Richard - yes I understood the link cormac mentioned. Thanks for clarifying it is only the learning zone calendar that is the problem. Richard – yes I understood the link cormac mentioned. Thanks for clarifying it is only the learning zone calendar that is the problem.

]]> By: Richard Hearne http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1661 Richard Hearne Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:26:31 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1661 Hi Krishna I think Cormac was referring to a lack of a link from www.krishnade.com/blog to www.krishnade.com. The calendar that I saw causing issues wasn't on the blog but on the learningzone area. I imagine that WP calendar plugins probably have NOFOLLOW (your one seems not to though). I haven't used any calendar plugins so I cant oblige :( I imagine you would have to go back and change those links by hand. At least any links that are within posts. Rgds Richard Hi Krishna

I think Cormac was referring to a lack of a link from www.krishnade.com/blog to www.krishnade.com.

The calendar that I saw causing issues wasn’t on the blog but on the learningzone area. I imagine that WP calendar plugins probably have NOFOLLOW (your one seems not to though). I haven’t used any calendar plugins so I cant oblige :(

I imagine you would have to go back and change those links by hand. At least any links that are within posts.

Rgds
Richard

]]> By: Krishna De http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1660 Krishna De Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:03:25 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1660 Richard, John and Cormac - thank you all for your comments. @Richard - thank you for the feedback on the event - we are working on making the content available as an on-demand webinar as I recorded the audio so we are linking them with the slides which I hope will be of interest to people who could not attend. @Cormac - thank you for pointing out that there is no link to the home page - the Krishna De site is separate to my corporate website and is supporting me in building my personal brand online. The blog has been a terrific way to enhance my brand online. Do you have any recommended tools other than the events tool I use on my blog? I have this plugin there as I want to have an easy way for visitors to see the fothcoming seminars and events I am leading. @Richard - yes I did change the permalinks to be more seo friendly so will need to go back to change them. Any suggestions on how best to do this or do I need to work through post by post and page by page? Thank you once again for the review and I have plenty to be working with here to support enhancing search engine ranking so I build an even stronger personal brand online! Richard, John and Cormac – thank you all for your comments.

@Richard – thank you for the feedback on the event – we are working on making the content available as an on-demand webinar as I recorded the audio so we are linking them with the slides which I hope will be of interest to people who could not attend.

@Cormac – thank you for pointing out that there is no link to the home page – the Krishna De site is separate to my corporate website and is supporting me in building my personal brand online. The blog has been a terrific way to enhance my brand online.

Do you have any recommended tools other than the events tool I use on my blog? I have this plugin there as I want to have an easy way for visitors to see the fothcoming seminars and events I am leading.

@Richard – yes I did change the permalinks to be more seo friendly so will need to go back to change them. Any suggestions on how best to do this or do I need to work through post by post and page by page?

Thank you once again for the review and I have plenty to be working with here to support enhancing search engine ranking so I build an even stronger personal brand online!

]]> By: Richard Hearne http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1657 Richard Hearne Tue, 10 Apr 2007 17:54:26 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1657 @John - TBH I'm not familiar with that extension and I didn't have the time to go looking for the files in question (if they even exist on the server). Guess who's application came in handy for some of this? :grin: @Cormac - I didn't notice that the homepage had no internal links pointing at it. Good spot. Calendars are dangerous for SEs. @John – TBH I’m not familiar with that extension and I didn’t have the time to go looking for the files in question (if they even exist on the server). Guess who’s application came in handy for some of this? :grin:

@Cormac – I didn’t notice that the homepage had no internal links pointing at it. Good spot. Calendars are dangerous for SEs.

]]> By: Cormac http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1658 Cormac Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:53:24 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1658 Richard, a problem I noticed is there is no link to the homepage from the blog. (none that I could find anyway) The blog calendar is a dreadful idea alright. It generates links in a different format, something like month/week/day so this can result in duplicated content as the content is accessible via an alternative link too. Richard, a problem I noticed is there is no link to the homepage from the blog. (none that I could find anyway)

The blog calendar is a dreadful idea alright. It generates links in a different format, something like month/week/day so this can result in duplicated content as the content is accessible via an alternative link too.

]]> By: JohnMu http://www.redcardinal.ie/blogs/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1659 JohnMu Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:47:57 +0000 http://www.redcardinal.ie/search-engine-optimisation/10-04-2007/getting-pages-out-of-supplemental/#comment-1659 Great review! Catching hacked sites like that is very hard to do, especially when/if they are fixed and the owner "forgets" to tell you about it. It can have a giant impact on indexing and ranking. Just something tiny - you might want to change Disallow: *.csi to Disallow: *.csi$ Which would make sure that the ".csi" is at the end of the URL (which would however also still allow dynamic URLs, if you have any, eg "/page.csi?param=value", I'm not sure if this is the case here). Could allowing other bots to crawl the .csi-pages cause problems in the future? Perhaps it would make more sense to rewrite those URLs so that they can be disallowed on a folder-level. Great review! Catching hacked sites like that is very hard to do, especially when/if they are fixed and the owner “forgets” to tell you about it. It can have a giant impact on indexing and ranking.

Just something tiny – you might want to change
Disallow: *.csi
to
Disallow: *.csi$
Which would make sure that the “.csi” is at the end of the URL (which would however also still allow dynamic URLs, if you have any, eg “/page.csi?param=value”, I’m not sure if this is the case here). Could allowing other bots to crawl the .csi-pages cause problems in the future? Perhaps it would make more sense to rewrite those URLs so that they can be disallowed on a folder-level.

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