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cgman
Joined: Mar 01, 2007
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Posted: 2007-Mar-02 08:02
I administrate a fairly extensive news site (over 2000 articles that are unique to our site). Each week we probably have 5-10 new articles. Our site has been around for many years.
The problem is when I do a site: search in Google, it says,
Results 1 - 7 of about 266 from <my site>
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In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 7 already displayed.
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
I am working on a site map to make sure we get all our pages listed. The problem is, it looks to me like Google is seeing all our pages as being exactly the same. I think this may be because we have a long left column, and that's what the bot sees first, but I am not sure.
Any suggestions?
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kaulbr
Joined: Mar 15, 2006
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Posted: 2007-Mar-02 15:24
Are you page titles on each page different? If not, that's probably your problem.
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cgman
Joined: Mar 01, 2007
# Posts: 4
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Posted: 2007-Mar-02 16:03
Yes I have different titles and meta tags.
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bikeman
Joined: Feb 13, 2005
# Posts: 130
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Posted: 2007-Mar-04 17:21
A few months back I posted on thsi forum that I was considering removing the description tag from all of my subpages. (I kept the home page tag in because I wanted to dictate what searchers saw in their search results.)
Everyone said this was a bad idea but I was fed up with writing description tags for clients and I wanted to see the effect so I went ahead and tried it.
Removing the description tags had two effects:
1 - it made life a lot easier and removed the risk of my writing the same old sales crap in a pages description and removed the risk of my using keywords words that weren't in the page text.
2- google started seeing my pages in their true light ie it saw each as unique and indexed them with a description that it presumably found more relevant to that which it knew people searched for.
I now only write page titles.
ps I've found that a sitemap had little or no effect with google.
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2007-Mar-04 19:40
Nearly every site that I look at is showing only one normal result for a site:domain.com search.
That single URL may, or may not, be then followed by a list of Supplemental Results.
The site: search has been broken for many weeks like this.
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