How To Remove Your Blog Posts From Supplemental Result Index
Written on July 13, 2007 by admin
As I mentioned in my previous post about having most of my posts in the supplemental result index and that could be from the way a WordPress blog posts are organized. Well, today I’ve implemented an easy solution that only took less than a minute. I’ve found that many other bloggers even famous ones had the same problem. The fix was mentioned on this blog and was actually tried by Jack Humphrey blog here for a month and it appears that it works. So I just made that change and I am going to try it too.
So what is this Supplemental Result fix..
Well, obviously and before you try any fix you should have original content.
Now, Instead of posting the full articles in the HomePage(index), categories, feeds and search, you only need to publish snippets of the articles on these pages and the full article should only appear on its own page and no other pages. This way the only duplicate info that will be in the Supplemental Result Index are comments, and other pages that are not important.
All I did, was changing the_content() to the_excerpt()
Here is how I made the change on my blog..
It also depends on the templates that you are using, with my template I only
edited one file (index.php), I couldn’ t find the_content() on the other pages.
As the blog above mentioned DO NOT change single.php & post.php because this is where you want the full article to appear.
I searched for the_content():

I changed to this one:

Please post your results here if you find this solution worked for you… Thanks.



