Posted by John Honeck on 5th April 2007
We’ve added Vannessa Fox’s personal blog to our blogroll. It’s a fresh new blog but already she is giving great SEO advice with this Quickie SEO primer. She joins Matt Cutts on the Googler blogroll.
Adam, we haven’t forgot you but respected your blog as it’s trully personal as you rarely speak about webmastering on it.
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Posted by John Honeck on 12th March 2007
When searching in Google often you will find the first result has an extended list of links to pages on that site. For example a search for Microsoft returns a result like the following:
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Posted by John Mueller on 9th March 2007
It is possible that you get a different result on Google than you saw earlier, either on the same computer or on a different computer. It is also possible the the results which you see are not the same as the results that someone else sees. Why is that?
There are several factors that could cause this:
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Posted by John Honeck on 9th March 2007
There are many Google employees that regularly post on the Google Webmaster Help group. It is often a great place to start your quest for information by reading what they have had to say in the past. By following the links below you’ll be able to see their post’s and use the Google Search box to search the user’s posts.
In no particular order of importance they can be found at:
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Posted by John Honeck on 9th March 2007
Originally posted by Adam Lasnik on 11/9/2006
I’ve been seeing many questions — and especially many concerns — about our supplemental index.
This FAQ gives a nice albeit brief overview:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34473We may want to update that FAQ with some additional info later, but in the meantime, I thought I’d clear the air a bit:
1) Penalty? When your site has pages in our supplemental index, it does *not* indicate that your site has been penalized. In particular, we do not move a site’s pages from our main to our supplemental index in response to any violations of our Webmaster Guidelines.
2) Freshness? You can expect to see a fresher supplemental index in the coming quarters. By the definition of “supplemental,” however, I don’t forsee it becoming as comprehensive or frequently updated as our main index.
3) Cure? Get more quality backlinks. This is a key way that our algorithms will view your pages as more valuable to retain in our main index.
If you’d simply like to get some old pages OUT of our supplemental index (and out of Google altogether), then you can use our automated removal tool:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8459
Beware: Once removed from our index, the pages will STAY removed for 6 months and won’t be reincluded during that time, so remove carefully (and only use this tool if absolutely necessary).
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