Google took away the ability to easily view your supplemental results - SiteMost brings the feature back.
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Like to know more of how you are determining this behind the scenes.
I can still see em on my DC, using: site:www.bla.com ***-asdfasdf I know some DCs have disabled it though and I suppose the tool could be useful for people who cannot see the results, although they could just visit another DC, I suspect that is what the tool is doing. Nice idea though Sphunn.
You can still see the supplemental results by using: site:www.bla.com The only problem is that it mixes your supplemental results with all the others - our tool just takes whats already there and simply extracts the supplemental results. Nothing amazing, but useful none-the-less (or at least we think so)
Great, thanks!
Accurate, thanks - bookmarked.
Thats a great tool. Thanks for making it available. Just one small improvement if it can be done would be to add at the bottom the total number of web pages indexed (including the supplemental results). By that, I assume you would use the number from the site:www.domain.com search. So the number isnt difficult, but I dont know how easy it is to fit within your process.
Thanks for the feedback bwelford - Ill get that added for you. Another feature we were thinking about adding was a drop-down so you could check different data centers - but before we started adding too many features we wanted to make sure people would actually use the tool first. Keep the feedback coming Thanks
So once the supplementals stop getting tagged in the serps, will the tool wont work no more?
My understanding is if you have more than 1000 pages that arent in supplemental and those show up in the site:domain.com command, this tool wont return any results... If you wanted to get fancy, there are other ways you could build this to get better results, though it would require much more scraping of Googles SERPs.
It doesnt work on one of my sites.
A [site:www.domain.com -inurl:www] search used to list "Historical"(*) Supplemental Results, but that functionality seems to no longer work as of at least a few weeks ago. (*)The term "Historical Supplemental" was first coined over at WMW for a specific type of Supplemental Result shown in the SERPs.
Thats correct MattC and Rand - its a fairly simple tool that will eventually break when Google changes things... but unfortunately, that is the case with a hand-full of SEO tools Ive seen. Fortunately with necessity being the mother of most inventions, when that time comes Im sure that well have new and improved ways to deliver similar results.
simplicity is bliss! To confirm Rands observation, it doesnt seem to work for any of our sites with > 1,000 pages in the non-supplemental index.
Everyone should also vote to bring back the official version: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/
Interesting... but unfortunately, useless for some of my clients. They return no results. Could you tell us if the tool will soon work on any situation? Thanks! Marcelo
Same here: "No supplemental results found" for sites that I know have some.
The tool currently uses the data found when running the site: command... ie. site:blah.com and then strips the supplemental listings from the pages in the main index... the downside with this is that if you have a site with more than 1000 pages indexed, the supplemental results dont show using the site: command and our tool doesnt work :( If youd like to see Google bring-back the feature properly - you should vote for it on Matts blog: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/
Thanks! The tools works nicely. I have linked to it and stumbled it.
Thanks for making the tool available and for doing a great job of explaining it. Very timely given Google movement.