Getting Pages Out of Supplemental

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   Hello All,

Recently, I'm finding more and more of my product pages becoming supplemental results in Google (I suppose because Google is cracking down on duplication). I write each product description myself, so it is original stuff. I'm also losing ranking with my keywords.

My guess is that google is also indexing my https pages which I plan on working on (from the advice found on this forum), but another problem is that my products can be found in multiple categories. I don't know how to fix this using robots.txt. 

viewPrd.asp?idcategory=&idproduct=200

viewPrd.asp?idcategory=3&idproduct=200

etc.

The only help information I could find:

Either exclude all dynamic pages or list each page separately. That would not be practical as I have a lot of products and each product is available in multiple categories.

I don't want to switch right to the HTML generator as it's still in beta and also because quite a few of my interior pages have achieved pagerank.

I hope someone has found a solution to this problem. Please help as I cannot find an answer anywhere (I've read the files on robotstxt.org already)

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clueless Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11-July-2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote clueless Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Getting Pages Out of Supplemental Posted: 11-July-2007 at 2:23am
	Hello All, Recently, I'm finding more and more of my product pages becoming supplemental results in Google (I suppose because Google is cracking down on duplication). I write each product description myself, so it is original stuff. I'm also losing ranking with my keywords. My guess is that google is also indexing my https pages which I plan on working on (from the advice found on this forum), but another problem is that my products can be found in multiple categories. I don't know how to fix this using robots.txt. viewPrd.asp?idcategory=&idproduct=200 viewPrd.asp?idcategory=3&idproduct=200 etc. The only help information I could find: Either exclude all dynamic pages or list each page separately. That would not be practical as I have a lot of products and each product is available in multiple categories. I don't want to switch right to the HTML generator as it's still in beta and also because quite a few of my interior pages have achieved pagerank. I hope someone has found a solution to this problem. Please help as I cannot find an answer anywhere (I've read the files on robotstxt.org already)

mimpoz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22-May-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote mimpoz Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 11-July-2007 at 11:52am
	Actually Switching to the HTML Generated pages do not solve the problem since the static html pages also have differnt page name if it's in a differnt category. this is the link to the product in the classic category http://www.chevellejewelry.com/gold-diamond/pc/14k-White-Gol d-Diamond-Tennis-Bracelet-175p3011.htm this is the link to the product in the diamond bracelet category http://www.chevellejewelry.com/gold-diamond/pc/14k-White-Gol d-Diamond-Tennis-Bracelet-213p3011.htm I was wondering if the way to solve the problem was to leave out the category id - and have the category saved as a session variable.

clueless Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11-July-2007 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote clueless Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12-July-2007 at 1:34am
	Mimpoz, Could you expand on what you wrote, i.e. "leave out the category ID and have the category saved as a session variable." Do you mean exclude the category ID using robots.txt? If so, could you tell me the syntax: User-agent: * Disallow: / (what should go here?) Having the category saved as a session variable requires asp programming, doesn't it? I don't understand this. Technically-challenged.

mimpoz Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22-May-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote mimpoz Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12-July-2007 at 11:19am
	No I do not meant to put in a robots.txt. I mean you should us a session variable that would save the category id to be retreived in the viewprd.asp page - which requires asp programming.