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Checking Supplemental Index Status for URLs in Large Sites
June 26, 2007
For sites with fewer than 1000 pages, it's possible (if not monotonous) to see which URLs are in Google's Supplemental Index. Simply run a site: command for your domain (example) and scroll through the results pages until you start to see "Supplemental Result" next to some of the URLs.
But what if your site has 50,000 pages and the supplemental results don't start until the final 10,000? Even the fairly common site:domain.com *** -view query isn't totally accurate, and it's still subject to the 1000 URL display limit.
Depending on which case you find yourself, it can be either tedious or impossible to detect whether a specific URL is Supplemental.
Using our blog site as an example, suppose I suspect -- but can't confirm -- that an old post about Yahoo Sitemaps is in the SI. A simple info: query doesn't tell you whether the URL is supplemental or not. For example, the following shot came from the query:
[info:http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2006/11/an_update_on_ya.html]
Instead, a quick way to check Supplemental status is to pull a unique string from the URL in question (such as a folder or filename) and tack it into an inurl:-filtered site: query. In other words, the following shot came from this query, in which I added the filename (minus extension) into the inurl: command:
[inurl:an_update_on_ya site:seoblog.intrapromote.com]
In this result, note the Supplemental Index status.
The bottom line is to find an inurl: string that will quickly filter down the site: query results so that your specific URL shows up quickly.
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posted by Erik Dafforn at June 26, 2007 08:50 AM
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Hi,
I wrote a post that might be interesting yesterday on how your site can achieve top rankings with pages in the supplemental index - I too ran the experiment on my blog :)
http://blog.achille.name/search-engines/you-think-youre-in-google-hell-but-youre-in-heaven/
Posted by: Sante at June 27, 2007 04:13 AM
Hi,
I too wrote a post on the supplementals and how you can have pages in the supplemental index and achieve top rankings:
http://blog.achille.name/search-engines/you-think-youre-in-google-hell-but-youre-in-heaven/
Posted by: Sante at June 27, 2007 04:19 AM
It's an interesting idea, but I'm not sure it's any quicker than doing it manually for large sites. I do SEO for several sites of over 500,000 pages - would you like to come over and work out my KPI for the ratio of supp. pages to main index pages every week?
Don't get me wrong, I wish there were a quick way to measure this and kudos for thinking of it, I'm just not sure this is it...
Posted by: RanOh at June 28, 2007 03:28 AM
RanOh,
The point of this post is to be able to find the SI status of a *single* URL, not measure them in bulk. As for it not being any faster than "manually," I'm sure how you're defining "manual" here, because nothing I'm discussing is automated. If the URL whose status you're searching for is beyond the first 1000 that Google lists, you're out of luck using the traditional site: x.com *** -view method. Thus the purpose of this post.
Posted by: Erik Dafforn at June 28, 2007 08:19 AM
I'm discussing is automated. If the URL whose status you're searching for is beyond the first 1000 that Google list
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