Comments on: Squidoo, Supplemental Results & Twitter Twittering

By: Rich Zhang

Rich Zhang — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 12:58:25 +0000

Yep, agree with Tom. And the special search tag is pretty useful.

As for squidoo slap, I believe that the SEO benefit of squidoo is gone. However, squidoo is not dead at all, there’s so much more on squidoo than just seo. The free report at http://special.providenthost.com/squidoo-slap/ is explaining how this seo benefit is dead.

By: Howie

Howie — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:13:39 +0000

On Squidoo —-
There have been a lot of comments and questions on what really happened with Google & Squidoo
I interviewed Seth Godin on the “Squidoo Slap”
http://www.searchingdot.com/2007/07/17/interview-with-seth-godin-on-the-squidoo-slap/

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:07:45 +0000

I'm on board with the whole discussion about supplemental results - and I think I agree with Rand that webmaster central is the best place for the report but I'm not sure why everyone is getting upset about losing the search function - it still works in google.co.uk (even for US sites).

See it in action for seomoz here

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:14:19 +0000

Thanks for the mention Lisa. I think Rand’s solution for the supplemental information is the fair compromise. Despite what Matt seems to want us to believe it is important to have information about which pages of your site are in the supplemental index.
And I agree completely that people are going to find something to obsess about when it comes to search engines and how their pages rank. It’s not as though people have stopped obsessing over PageRank even though we all know or should know it’s not worth obsessing over.
I kind of feel the same as you about Twitter. No offense intended to all my friends, but I really don’t need to know what you’re all doing right now. Neil’s post is making me wonder if I should at least take a closer look at Twitter. But I have so many other things to do with my day.

By: Dyea

Dyea — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:15:36 +0000

Why was Cutts allowed to sit in on the “Give it up” thing? I can see why he would want to but sounds like a bunch of kissassism on the part of the SEOs. And we can see the result of that… no more supp searches… well done.

By: SEO Honolulu

SEO Honolulu — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:55:38 +0000

“obsessing over things that don’t really matter (like PageRank, for instance)”
I totally love you now.
As far as twittering goes, I think what really makes it successful or not is whether or not you have a fair amount of peers already using it. It doesn’t matter what you twitter about, it’s whether or not any of your friends will give a crap about it.

By: Marios Alexandrou

Marios Alexandrou — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:41:22 +0000

Is it so hard to just use the regular site:domain.com query to track down supplemental pages? Set your search result count to 100 and then click through the search results pages until you see supplemental listings and you're in the same position as when there was a special supplemental index query.

Since supplemental pages appear after non-supplemental pages (at least from what I've seen) you can still get an idea of how your site is doing by looking at what results page you're on when the first supplemental listing appears.