Checking Supplemental Index Status for URLs in Large Sites

For sites with fewer than 1000 pages, it's possible (if not monotonous) to see which URLs are in Google's Supplemental Index. Simply run a site: command for your domain (example) and scroll through the results pages until you start to see "Supplemental Result" next to some of the URLs.

But what if your site has 50,000 pages and the supplemental results don't start until the final 10,000? Even the fairly common site:domain.com *** -view query isn't totally accurate, and it's still subject to the 1000 URL display limit.

Depending on which case you find yourself, it can be either tedious or impossible to detect whether a specific URL is Supplemental.

Using our blog site as an example, suppose I suspect -- but can't confirm -- that an old post about Yahoo Sitemaps is in the SI. A simple info: query doesn't tell you whether the URL is supplemental or not. For example, the following shot came from the query:

[info:http://seoblog.intrapromote.com/2006/11/an_update_on_ya.html]

Instead, a quick way to check Supplemental status is to pull a unique string from the URL in question (such as a folder or filename) and tack it into an inurl:-filtered site: query. In other words, the following shot came from this query, in which I added the filename (minus extension) into the inurl: command:

[inurl:an_update_on_ya site:seoblog.intrapromote.com]

In this result, note the Supplemental Index status.
The bottom line is to find an inurl: string that will quickly filter down the site: query results so that your specific URL shows up quickly.
posted by Erik Dafforn at June 26, 2007 08:50 AM
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Winner Best Keyword Research Tool » Online Marketing Blog

Posted by Lee Odden on Jun 25th, 2007 in Online Marketing, Keyword Research

The poll is closed and the results are in with 154 votes for the most recent TopRank OMB Reader Poll: Best Keyword Research Tools. The two long standing tools of choice for many search marketers, Keyword Discovery and Wordtracker, battled it out and in the end, tied.
What surprised me was how popular the old Overture tool continues to be despite not being updated since January 2007. Perhaps that should spell an opportunity for Yahoo to somehow use the url for a new and improved keyword tool with ads for Panama on it.

Keyword Discovery (18%)
Wordtracker (18%)
WordZe (15%)
Google Keyword Tool (14%)
SEO Digger (12%)
Overture Keyword Selector (6%)
SEO Boook Keyword Tool (3%)
KeywordSpy (3%)
SpyFu (3%)
Digital Point Keyword Suggestion Tool (3%)
NicheBOT (2%)
Hitwise Search Intelligence (2%)
Google Suggest Scraper (1%)
comScore qSearch (0%)
AdGooRoo SEM Insight (0%)

Coding a Yahoo Keyword Rank Checker

I recently recieved a contact request from a loyal reader requesting an articles about developing a Search Engine Rank Checker like that featurer at http://www.googlerankings.com/. One of our development sites, http://googlerank.nexperts.org/ already has such a tool for google, but unlike the tool on google rankings.com, the googlerank.nexperts.org does not require an API key :).

In response to this request, we have embarked on the process of coding such a tool, and the Beta Version of the Yahoo Keyword Rank Checker tool is available at http://googlerank.nexperts.org/YahooRankChecker.aspx.

Keep in mind that this a demonstraton version, and has a link to the complete source code. If you need a professional development version, contact our team at http://www.affordablewebdesignsinc.com/nj_web_development_contact_form.aspx, who can build such a customized windows or web based application.

The current version of the Yahoo Rank Checker is a barebones beta version, and does not include any addiotional error handling. Check back reguraly as more complete versions of the code should be posted, along with a Web 2.o version implementing ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX.