Comments on: Improve Search Engine Rankings in One Easy Step

By: Balinese

Balinese — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:20:36 +0000

That’s helpful but unfortunately i’m using subdomain from blogspot

By: Matt Huggins

Matt Huggins — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:44:19 +0000

My pleasure, glad I could help.

By: suray

suray — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:36:27 +0000

Very helpful. Thanks bro.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 21:30:28 +0000

Great post! I am still learning about supplemental and all this part of it, and when my little project is done in a week I look forward to exploring this more. Thanks for the tips that I will surely apply when I can start to “restructure” my blog. Another good one Matt!

By: Matt Huggins

Matt Huggins — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:47:59 +0000

It’s a template setting. Within your WordPress template’s archive.php file, you can add or to show the blog post or a portion of it, relatively. If you want to do either, I would recommend the latter for the sake of SEO. If you want to do the former, make sure to beef up your robots.txt file.

By: Erik Karey

Erik Karey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:40:12 +0000

Is it a setting somewhere to show post titles vs posts or is that based on my template? I never really noticed that.

By: Matt Huggins

Matt Huggins — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:33:12 +0000

Yes, Terinea, I plan to update with another blog post if there is a significant change after Google updates its supplemental index once the 36 day period comes around.

Erik, I see that your category and archive pages only display the post titles rather than the full post text like most blogs do. This is undoubtedly the reason you have very few supplemental pages. It’s true that this tip is mostly geared towards blogs that display full posts on pages other than the index and the blog post itself. One line you might consider adding to your blog as it grows is the following:

Disallow: /page/

This will make it so a post that appears on page 2+ of your blog won’t become supplemental to the post appearing at the slug URL.

By: Erik Karey

Erik Karey — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:39:47 +0000

Thanks for the tip Matt. I’ve added the lines to my robots.txt as well. I checked my sites stats as well, but didn’t have many supplemental pages, only 4 so far. I hope to keep it that way. Thanks again.

By: Terinea Weblog

Terinea Weblog — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:38:12 +0000

Will you be blogging about this agai, i.e. your progress?

Interesting stuff.

Jamie