Google’s supplemental hell..err…index is a place you do not want your site to end up in. Google’s supplemental index is basically sites that Google feels are second rate, are duplicate content or just basically results that they do not like.
Supplemental results can still rank for some keywords but in most cases they will not show up for any searches that have a lot of results. They will only show up for very obscure queries. So, how do you avoid Google supplemental index?
The first step is to find out which of your sites pages are in the supplement results. To do this just do a search on Google for your site…
site:www.YourDomain.com
Then scroll through the results until you find pages that have “Supplemental Result” listed next to them. See picture below…
How to Get Out Of the Supplement Index
To help get your pages out of the supplemental index the first thing you want to do is to make sure that your pages do not have duplicate content. If you are using articles off article directories you could have problems with duplicate content.
However, the worst kind of duplicate content is inter-site duplicate content. You never want to have the same content on more than one page of your site. So make sure each page of your site have completely unique content.
Another culprit can be how you present your pages. All of the following lead to the same page: yoursite.com; www.yousite.com; www.yoursite.com/index.html. But they can be looked at as different pages by Google. Make sure to be consistent with how you present your pages. Pick one way and stick to it.
Next you need to start getting more links to any page that is listed in the Google’s supplemental results. Start using link directories, article submissions, swap links, whatever it takes.
However, in many cases links from your own site can do the trick also. Try linking from pages on your site that are not in the SI to pages that are in the SI. This will give some some extra PR juice and help them to look more relevant.
In many cases I have been able to easily pull pages out of Google’s supplemental index simply by linking to those pages from the homepage of my site. You homepage, in most cases, will have the most PageRank and by simply passing some on to the pages in your site that are in the SI you can pull them out.
Remember, that it will take some time to see results but sticking to these tips you should be able to avoid Google supplement index.
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Hi,
Great stuff! I guess when Google does an update of sites, that is when we are all affected! And a clean up is required!
I am so glad to learn this little tip! I have enjoyed your tips and articles ever since I found your free report. I know Google is making changes in what their search brings up, because I am finding fewer and fewer of those sites that have no content! I just hope they aren’t too hard on all of us. Change is good, though, and it was definately needed, IMHO. I will be watching to see if I land in the supplemental zone.
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Thanks for this article. I just had a site get buried in the supplemental index, so I’ll be needing to do a lot of work to get it back out. I hear as a rule of thumb you want 75% of your content to be original, while not quoting the content of others more than about 25% of the time.
So go heavy on commentary & light on quotes to avoid the supplemental index.