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[chaz7979]

I have a blog that has custom title tags, meta desc tags, unique urls, and unique content on each page yet a lot of the single post pages are in supplemental. This goes against everything I know about SEO but, I am somewhat new to blogs so, is there something I am missing? The blog url is in my user profile. Thanks in advance.

P.S. These pages may have been placed into supplemental before I set up the custom desc and title tags. If that is the case how long does it usually take for google to recognize the change and take pages out of supplemental hell?

[Randy]

Even though your other changes are recent it may take a bit more to convince the engines those pages are important enough to be listed in their main index. This usually means something to do with either how you're linking to the internal pages or getting others to link to deeper pages in your site.

With most blog software the individual post pages are going to be 3, 4 or more clicks from the home page. So unless your home page already has a pretty good bit of link popularity to pass down through that many levels it's not at all unusual for them to end up as supplementals.

If you can use some method to decrease the number of clicks to these deeper pages it usually helps. It also helps if you can get some external sites linking to some of your deeper pages to provide the spiders another route to them.

[chaz7979]

It seems to me like wordpress should create a site map type page. Something like that would make individual posts only 1 click from the index. Do you think that would help with the problem of having individual posts buried inside the software?

[Randy]

It may or may not Chaz. It depends upon how close those pages currently are to the line in the sand.

Getting some external links to your deeper pages tends to work best, but there are times when you can get by with simply providing an easier click path.

[adybee]

It seems to me like wordpress should create a site map type page. Something like that would make individual posts only 1 click from the index. Do you think that would help with the problem of having individual posts buried inside the software?

Google Sitemap Generator -

Sitemap Generator -

Don't know how good this are Chaz - maybe you can try them and give us some feedback?

Edited by adybee, 04 June 2007 - 09:23 AM.

[torka]

In this case, I don't think it's a matter of the Google sitemap (because the pages are already indexed, just supplemental). That sitemap can potentially help if there's trouble getting pages indexed, but that's not the problem here.

Rather, I think what's being discussed and could (possibly, maybe) be needed is an actual honest-to-goodness for-the-user linked-from-the-site-navigation sitemap. One that could (potentially) put all the pages on the site within two clicks or so of each other so as to help spread the home page's "link love" to the individual post pages.

I think getting deep links to individual important post pages might also be helpful, but a sitemap won't hurt. And as Randy says, depending on how close to the tipping point the pages are, the sitemap might potentially do the trick itself (but frankly I wouldn't hold my breath if it were my site).

There is a WordPress plugin that will generate a sitemap for your human visitors. It's definitely not a cure-all, and it does leave a few things to be desired here and there, but if you want a for-the-humans sitemap without a lot of work, it will do the trick.

http://www.dagondesi...-for-wordpress/

--Torka

[chaz7979]

Rather, I think what's being discussed and could (possibly, maybe) be needed is an actual honest-to-goodness for-the-user linked-from-the-site-navigation sitemap.

Exactly. I will check out that plug-in. Thanks.