Comments on: Google Crawling HTML Forms IS Harmful to Your Rankings http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/ It's Just Links Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:14:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Michael VanDeMar http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-85923 Michael VanDeMar Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:01:44 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/#comment-85923 Oh, it's boggling, alright. I just recently had a Googler suggest that one of the reasons my images directory got deindexed was because I had cached some search pages to support some of the posts I had written... right in the middle of them screwing up the index with this clutter. Oh, it’s boggling, alright. I just recently had a Googler suggest that one of the reasons my images directory got deindexed was because I had cached some search pages to support some of the posts I had written… right in the middle of them screwing up the index with this clutter.

]]> By: tony http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-85649 tony Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:44:54 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/#comment-85649 Thanks for the plugin tip and the other blog post on the form crawling Michael. Funny. A few years ago I intentionally provided easy to crawl paths for googlebot to my internal site search pages (which also had PPC ads on them :) ) and within a week they indexed 30k of these pages. Another week later they deindexed the entire site. Still boggles me why they are doing this intentionally now. Thanks for the plugin tip and the other blog post on the form crawling Michael.

Funny. A few years ago I intentionally provided easy to crawl paths for googlebot to my internal site search pages (which also had PPC ads on them :) ) and within a week they indexed 30k of these pages. Another week later they deindexed the entire site.

Still boggles me why they are doing this intentionally now.

]]> By: Michael VanDeMar http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-85520 Michael VanDeMar Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:36:28 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/#comment-85520 As a side note, looking at my comment, you might want to check out the Chunk URL's plugin for Wordpress. :) http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2006/06/29/wp-chunk/ Automatically shortens URL's so they don't go outside of the containers. As a side note, looking at my comment, you might want to check out the Chunk URL’s plugin for Wordpress. :)

http://www.village-idiot.org/archives/2006/06/29/wp-chunk/

Automatically shortens URL’s so they don’t go outside of the containers.

]]> By: Michael VanDeMar http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-85516 Michael VanDeMar Wed, 04 Jun 2008 19:29:23 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/#comment-85516 Tony, It's not just search pages. They are crawling forms that they should never be looking at even: http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/05/23/googlebot-creates-pages-instead-of-simply-indexing-them-new-form-crawling-algo-goes-bad/ This is creating exact duplicates of pages, not just near duplicate search results. Tony,

It’s not just search pages. They are crawling forms that they should never be looking at even:

http://smackdown.blogsblogsblogs.com/2008/05/23/googlebot-creates-pages-instead-of-simply-indexing-them-new-form-crawling-algo-goes-bad/

This is creating exact duplicates of pages, not just near duplicate search results.

]]> By: Brian @ Social SEO http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/comment-page-1/#comment-85506 Brian @ Social SEO Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:58:44 +0000 http://www.tonyspencer.com/2008/06/03/google-crawling-html-forms-is-harmful-to-your-rankings/#comment-85506 What are you talking about? A resulting indexed page for "tables" is "oh so" relevant! :-\ I've noticed this to on several Drupal sites of mine - and have no idea why they would automatically populate and rank search pages. Talk about junking up a search index, that's one way to do it. What are you talking about? A resulting indexed page for “tables” is “oh so” relevant! :-\ I’ve noticed this to on several Drupal sites of mine – and have no idea why they would automatically populate and rank search pages. Talk about junking up a search index, that’s one way to do it.

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