Blogspot SEO Rank Report After Removing Archive System

Summary: Blogspot SEO jumped from page 6 of Google to page 3 of Google in under a week after removing the Blogspot archive system

I just thought I would drop by quickly and make a post regarding my current progress trying to get Blogspot SEO ranked high in Google search results. All I have improved upon I've talked about extensively and in detail on Blogspot SEO; so I would assume people following my posts (via feed, email subscription or bookmark) have had similar SERP improvements also. In this particular post, I will quickly be focusing on the SERP improvement Blogspot SEO experienced after I implemented the following fix found in this post 'Why Blogspot Archive Has A Negative Impact On SEO'. I was initially worried that removing the Blogspot archive system might in fact ruin any rank improvements I previously obtained with Blogspot SEO. When changing anything fundamental to your blog source code, you must prepare yourself to be knocked back in rank before advancing forward. You might use a piece of code or on-page SEO fix that could potentially knock you back in Google and forever keep you there. This is one of the main reasons why I always test my SEO guides out first on Blogspot SEO; if the worst comes to the worst it's only going to be me and my blog that experiences the negative effects, not you!

Why Blogspot Archive Has A Negative Impact On SEO

Aim: Explaining why the Blogspot archive system has a negative effect on SEO and how this can be resolved in two easy steps

I read up on an article recently how duplicate content on a blog can really effect SEO. For us as Blogspot users, the archive system can be detrimental to how we rank in Google for any particular search. Google uses two indexes for it's search results; main index and supplemental index (partially removed now due to a Google update). The main index contains the listed results of the top websites for a related search query (if I typed a common search such as 'SEO', the websites Google would show me are very likely from the main index). However, the supplemental index are search results that will only appear if there are very few or no related websites from the main index that matches the users search query. If posts are being duplicated twice by Blogspot (main post and archive post), it's quite possible Google might add that page to the supplemental index rather than the main index. Unless your writing for a Blog with a very unique theme, it's highly doubtful any of your posts are going to rank high in the SERP's. As a twist to the post, Google removed the supplemental index page label in an update, but I still strongly believe that search engines punish duplicated content (on the same website or blog) and consequently rank it lower in search results for your chosen keyword.