Comments on: SES NYC 2006, Day 4

By: Rivkah

Rivkah — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 20:58:59 +0000

Hey Matt,

I missed Thursday’s session due to weather/car issues. This is what I get for living near a conference and having to go home every night.
Any way I could see the PowerPoint (even though I missed the session)?

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 20:23:29 +0000

Hi Matt,

In his piece on Duplicate Content from SES NY, David Utter stated to use the robots.txt to stop spiders from visiting specific landing pages.

Given that http://www.oursite.com/?referrer=google (which is an exact duplicate of http://www.oursite.com and therefore http://www.outsite.com/?referrer=google has long since been 301′d to http://www.oursite.com) is still stuck in the supplementals with a cache of January 2005 – could we just add /?referrer=google to our robots.txt to resolve the issue?

Or:
1) Given the 301 that’s in place (even without the 301, the /? in the string automatically defaults http://www.oursite.com/?referrer=google to http://www.oursite.com) would this block you from http://www.oursite.com as well?
2) And once the robots.txt has this added, do we still need to wait for the “supplemental bot” to pick it up?

NOTE: Our full url is in my email address.

Thanks as always!

By: Ben

Ben — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 18:58:53 +0000

Hi Matt,

What is Google’s opinion of using the Google API for automated search engine ranking tracking?

There is a very nice tool, but I worry that it conflicts with the Google TOS:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=681136&posted=1

If you can help, that’d be great.

Thanks,

Ben

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 17:19:17 +0000

Google is more then scaring me. My business start almost exactly a year ago(2/05). Sales quickly sky rocketed and I had to hire three people. Most of my business was coming from Google which I was very thankful for. Since The October update I have had to let go all three employees as visitors/customers has dropped off the map.

Our site is a nice site that does not try to use any spamming techniques. It’s just a true blue site. I’m very confused as to how it could have been getting so many hits then all the sudden just drop off the map. It’s greatly impacted my income and other lives/jobs.

I’m crossing my fingers and saying my prayers that things turn around and good honest businesses/sites can rise to the top again.

Take care all,
Scott

By: Toby Barnett

Toby Barnett — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 07:45:30 +0000

The ppt would be cool to look over. Lai-tro!!

By: George Chaney

George Chaney — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 05:27:03 +0000

Enjoyed reading about the SES – Get some rest as you’re most likely gonna have a lonnnnnnng next week.

As far as this stuff: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33351-16-10.htm

The old saying “Don’t Panic” comes to mind for those doing nothing wrong. These things work themselves out, typically sooner than later. If G’s aware, as many have made them, it’s gonna get taken care of itself pretty soon I’m sure.

Have a great rest of the weekend (holiday Monday for us down in my neck of the woods!

Cheerios

By: Luke Pryor

Luke Pryor — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 23:58:14 +0000

Hi Matt,

I have done a major ‘overhaul’ on my site with a brand new design. I have a couple of questions about this:

1. I’ve submitted a new sitemap to google which it seems to have indexed, but not updating on all dc’s, just wondering how long it actually takes for all dc’s to update and for the sitemap to stop visiting the previous links in the sitemap?

2. I was running a script for a marketplace I have, which was no doubt crap, so I have created my own html pages for it, just wondering how to stop googlebot from visiting the old links via the cgi script? Do I have to just add it to the robots.txt file?

Cheers,

Luke

By: maxD

maxD — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 20:06:23 +0000

From what i see on wmw. G know about it now. So Robin Kay and anyone else I would refer you to this thread if you are dealing with supplemental issues.

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/33351-16-10.htm

Appreciate the communication from Google.

By: I.N

I.N — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 17:30:03 +0000

Matt, Many Matt fans in China keep asking about the possibility of your presentation at search engine strategies conference at Nanjing, China. That will be held in 17th-18th, March. Although it is such a rush after new york conference. But we are all looking forward to have you here with us.
I would like to assist you with more information about Nanjing event and chinese issue.

By: Robin Kay

Robin Kay — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 14:53:05 +0000

Matt,

please give us some feedback on if there is a problem with all the sites that went completely supplemental except their homepage.

Love to know if this is a positive thing or if we all need to go back to the drawing board.