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New Supplemental Results Tool at SiteMost

Went Hot: July 23, 2007 - 7:02 am
Posted By: SiteMost 713 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.sitemost.com.au)
Category: Google

Google took away the ability to easily view your supplemental results - SiteMost brings the feature back.

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from dannysullivan 713 days ago #

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Like to know more of how you are determining this behind the scenes.

from Eavesy 713 days ago #

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I can still see em on my DC, using:

site:www.bla.com ***-asdfasdf

I know some DC's 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.

from SiteMost 713 days ago #

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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 what's already there and simply extracts the supplemental results.

Nothing amazing, but useful none-the-less (or at least we think so)

from dannysullivan 713 days ago #

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Great, thanks!

from Sebastian 712 days ago #

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Accurate, thanks - bookmarked.

from bwelford 712 days ago #

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That's 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 isn't difficult, but I don't know how easy it is to fit within your process.

from SiteMost 712 days ago #

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Thanks for the feedback bwelford - I'll 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

from MattC 712 days ago #

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So once the supplementals stop getting tagged in the serps, will the tool won't work no more?

from randfish 712 days ago #

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My understanding is if you have more than 1000 pages that aren't in supplemental and those show up in the site:domain.com command, this tool won't 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 Google's SERPs.

from bestoptimized 712 days ago #

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It doesn't work on one of my sites.

from g1smd 711 days ago #

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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.

from SiteMost 711 days ago #

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That's correct MattC and Rand - it's 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 I've seen.

Fortunately with necessity being the mother of most inventions, when that time comes I'm sure that we'll have new and improved ways to deliver similar results.

from ryanlash 711 days ago #

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simplicity is bliss!

To confirm Rand's observation, it doesn't seem to work for any of our sites with > 1,000 pages in the non-supplemental index.

from jaybong 711 days ago #

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Everyone should also vote to bring back the official version: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/

from MarceloMD 711 days ago #

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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

from onreact 711 days ago #

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Same here: "No supplemental results found" for sites that I know have some.

from SiteMost 710 days ago #

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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 don't show using the site: command and our tool doesn't work :(

If you'd like to see Google bring-back the feature properly - you should vote for it on Matt's blog: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/webmaster-console-features/