For the last 6 months or so almost all pages on www.shoemoney.com have gone supplemental. I swear I think I get 1 email every other day at least letting me know that… So what does that mean? Well evidently Google thinks my pages have little value or something like that. Its ok… I rank #1 for Shoemoney and really that is all I care about.
Its kind of proving me wrong that just building good content and good links is enough… maybe I will have to do some actual SEO!
Its kind of fun to build a site that sucks in search engines and has no hope to get better. You actually can concentrate on what you want to do and not writing some spammy title for search engine traffic.
Here are stats so far this month. You can see the huge spikes when I made digg front page(s), Delicious Front Page/ and stumbleupon traffic. I was most surprised from the stumbleupon traffic.
Ohhh ya also notice the top 5 useragents are all FireFox Weeeeeeeeee!
August 9, 2009 at 10:33 am
StumbleUpon traffic is under-rated. Given the right material at the right time, your web 2.0 traffic sky’s the limit. With the release of the new Su.pr. SU’s full potential will be unleashed.
December 30, 2006 at 11:11 am
It’s amazing how many visitors you still get from the AdSense check
But the Google post and the Microsoft/Yahoo post are fairly new and have, by far, the most traffic.
You’re the champ!
December 30, 2006 at 12:41 am
Heh. I’ve got the same problem. I’ve been trying to fix it but Google thinks the important text on my page is the stupid sidebar on the right with the links. Bleh…
/shrug
When I get more time I’ll look into it I guess.
It’s not like I’m making a lot of money from my blog anyway
G-Man
December 29, 2006 at 10:44 pm
http://www.shoemoney.com/2004/10/11/so-i-met-paris-hilton/
December 29, 2006 at 10:31 pm
It’s interesting to see “paris hilton” having quite a few entries in the “Total Search Strings” stats
Did I miss your post about Paris Hilton?
December 29, 2006 at 7:11 pm
Just removing the /feed/ URLs with robots.txt file and using a plugin to show unique meta tags might do the trick.
Overall, though, most of your popular stories are bound to have lots of links, so it should be fine there.
Linking to your previous posts might help, too, but like you said, focus on what you like to do, than on SEO. Not that you write this blog for money, right?
December 29, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I nearly shat myself when I first looked at the daily visitor tallys for your domain. Wow.
The supplemental issue is quite peculiar. Who would have ever thought that META tags would be of any real use in 2006……
December 29, 2006 at 1:13 pm
I was looking at Google Blog Search a few weeks back (http://blogsearch.google.com) and noticed I was outranking you for all kinds of stuff (e.g. “affiliate marketing” “azoogle”), and I was thinking, what the hell is going on here? I thought may be Google just didn’t like you!
Looking at your stats you recieve exponentially more traffic than my little blog, and I am sure you have many more relevent incoming links. It must really suck for non-technical people trying to run a business online.
December 29, 2006 at 12:32 pm
Yeah, adding unique META descriptions to those pages will almost certainly get you out of Supplemental if you’re at all interested. Lots of people are noticing Google’s recent reemphasizing of the description tag, if only for issues like this one. See
META Tags are Dead. Long Live META Tags! for more examples.
December 29, 2006 at 10:50 am
I’m a newbie (possibly passing through). Someday I’ll figure out why “paris hilton” and “dodge charger” would place second & third on the Search String ranking. Hmmm…wonder if the “salma hayek” – “dodge viper” demographic is covered.
December 29, 2006 at 9:37 am
Well I think that at some point everyone/webmaster has to go through this.I think you should focus on how to get rid of this as soon as possible.
December 29, 2006 at 9:28 am
ya front page of digg/delicious/bluesnews/stumbleupon brings the heat
December 29, 2006 at 9:27 am
sure I can go back through my email and see when people first started sending
December 29, 2006 at 9:20 am
LOL, #5 on the top search phrases is just the word “fat”. More than “Jeremy Shoemaker”. For some reason I find that amusing. Which SE is sending that referral? Must be MSN cause they know what this site is really about
December 29, 2006 at 6:22 am
damn, i would kill for 31k uniques like you had on the 27th Dec.
go Digg!
December 29, 2006 at 5:10 am
Found this trick to show the NOT supplemental results just by adding a , to the above shown query.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Ashoemoney.com%2C&btnG=Google+Search
It shows around 1400 pages that are not in the supplemental results and are cached at a regular basis.
So your website is doing great in google:)
December 29, 2006 at 5:08 am
Well, you aren’t doing too badly. Many of your posts/pages aren’t in supplemental. It’s mainly the comment feeds for each post as well as pages with very little content. Secondly it’s quite obvious why these pages are in supplemental.. Your internal linking isn’t too good – if the goal is to have it all well indexed!
The thing about comment feeds in supplemental is rather common for wordpress. Just consider how little link juice they get.. It’s close to nothing since they’re typically just linked from the corresponding post and it’s just like 1 out of 100 links on that page.
December 29, 2006 at 3:31 am
Hi, I had this exact same problem with my blog, I took a couple of steps and waited a few weeks and wham it all came back. Firstly I placed meta-tags on all my blog pages.
I then removed a few Made-For-Adsense sites I had put up (nothing huge though). Finally I removed this Affiliate site I put up for testing which some how got indexed.
Oh yeah I forgot, I also put a robot.txt in, the problem I had was discussed here and may help you:
http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/42825-whole-site-gone-supplemental.html?highlight=whole+site+supplemental
December 29, 2006 at 12:37 am
Happens to me all the time and I panic… until I drill down and realize the good results come later. I am seeing 2640 results with the site operator. The sups start appearing at #740. Assuming all the 740+ results are non supped, then most of your results are fine.
December 29, 2006 at 12:06 am
dec-stat.gif does not work in ie6. not sure if you care about us ie mucks.
December 28, 2006 at 11:34 pm
So are you saying you’ve been supplemental for a while now? Can you give us an idea what month? It would be really interesting just to see a graph for the year without any numbers showing a steep drop at some point.
December 28, 2006 at 8:23 pm
http://www.shoemoney.com/?page_id=350
if you are interested
December 28, 2006 at 8:05 pm
the real question is how much are you making a day with all these ads
December 28, 2006 at 7:49 pm
went supplimental long before the redesign.
I am going to do another redesign soon though.
December 28, 2006 at 7:46 pm
hmm both work… also .png works to.
December 28, 2006 at 7:46 pm
yea chris – I have had it disallowed in my robots.txt for a while now… we will see what that does
December 28, 2006 at 7:44 pm
I can see why you have lots of supplementals… I htink Aaron Wall pointed out at the Elite Retreat that you have lots of “thin content” that can be easily rectified. For example, your photo galleries (which rock BTW) are really just duplicate page shells with a pic in the middle and a crap page title. If you add a little UGC element to each page, where people can comment on the pics, add stuff, tag the pics (which might be rolled into a page title and metadata changing attribute) you can thicken up and change up all those pages so they are different enough for G to take notice of them.
There’s a handful of other easy changes you could make that would probably have a nice impact as well. Though I see your point, you can rock the web with 0 SEO if you are a good marketer, which you seem to be doing
December 28, 2006 at 7:43 pm
I don’t know if you did just to see who was on the ball or not but your graphic should reference http://www.shoemoney.com/images/dec-stat.jpg
not
http://www.shoemoney.com/images/dec-stat.gif
December 28, 2006 at 7:40 pm
It sounds like some backlash from the Forbes article, “Bitten By The Google Spider”. When I read the quotes from you I was very surprised you would be so open about basically saying screw Google we are getting around them.
December 28, 2006 at 7:21 pm
Didn’t you recently do a redesign? That could be a reason.
December 28, 2006 at 7:18 pm
Notice the third result
It’s pointing to
http://www.shoemoney.com/wordpresscomments.txt
December 28, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Well I can think of several reasons off the top of my head why it sucks maybe I will make a post on that.
December 28, 2006 at 7:09 pm
Looks like you rank well in Yahoo! Maybe Google just sucks?!!?