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Google using web history to find content?
hello21
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Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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It seems to me that when google introduces a new 'search' function for web masters and/or search users, the visual changes take effect gradually because Google can only use the data that permission has been granted for.
Take sitelinks, these are becoming more and more visible and the sitelinks displayed appear more relevent. Why? Because the data being recorded by google only started to be gathered from a certain date and the rollout has been gradual as they have continued to release more products to appeal to different users in order to get them to share their data
1. yes you can record my data and do what you want with it, i love google and i know you will use my data to give me an even better service
2. yes you can use my data but you cant record my name alongside it, because then my next door neighbour will be able to access my bank details
3. no you cant use my data...(so i guess i cant use the tool now, right?
4. i didnt even notice the tick boxes, i just ticked yes to everything
sound familiar?
Anyway, reason for this post, today i noticed the number of pages for one of our sites in the google index has doubled. on inspection i found that the 'new' urls appearing in the index are pages generated from a JS product sort function.
But these pages are:
a. not linked from anywhere in the site
b. not linked from the google sitemap
c. too many to have been found by Google using (genuine) social bookmarks
There really, truly, is no page in the index that Googe could have crawled and found these urls from.
My opinion is that its down to personalised search / web history and that there has recently been a consolidation of data gathered from user accounts web history that has been applied to the main index, effecting the increase in sitelinks and the increase in pages indexed.
This of course poses new issues for webmasters who, like us, have utilised a javascript method of allowing site visitors to sort products on a page according to type, size, colour, etc. It does generate a url but it was the simplest method to implement at the time and we made sure that any duplicate issues were minimal. Well, web history has buggared that one up!
We can't even put info in robots.txt because it only allows you to put the most basic of isntructions "dont index this url". whereas we need to tell it "dont index any url that ends sort-red.asp"
So our solution is change the functionality to use cookies to sort the products on a page. And we have to implement 301 redirects on all those bloody urls that have appeared in the index.
So, this post is not so much about asking for help, more sharing an issue I've noticed and my solution (but if you know a better way please say Smile). If you agree that the effects Web History and Personalised Search are really starting to show themselves and and have other experiences to share please tell us here.
Hi, I'm new to SEO 1. |
Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:26 pm |
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Vasili
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Joined: 14 Nov 2008
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Looks like a poor attempt of Astroturfing or an incomplete Sybil (without a link) to me .... 
Choice Pro SEO | Choice Pro Webs |
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Fri Nov 21, 2008 7:51 pm |
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