Google Supplementary Index
Website pages that are found in Google supplemental index are there because they are seen as second rate and are crawled less frequently.
There is now an easy way to see what webpages are in supplementary index. You simply need to do a Google search for:
site:www.yourwebsite.com *** -view
Note: there is a space directly before and after ***
Aaron Wall's SEO Book suggests that studying the number of supplementary pages your website has, can help clue you in on the health of your site.
If none of your pages are supplemental then likely you have good information architecture. If some of your pages are supplemental, that might be fine as long as those are pages that duplicate other content and/or are generally of lower importance. If many of your key pages are supplemental you may need to look at improving your internal site architecture and/or marketing your site to improve your link equity.
In any case, it's worth checking how many pages you have in Google Supplementary Index often. Then consider whether these webpages are important. If they are, then work on getting them out of supplemental to ensure higher listings within searches.
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Comments (1)
Yes, but if your website is showing pages in search engines that are in supplemental results and your content is unique content - that you wrote then its more than likely that someone has copied your content and has it on a page which is ranked higher than yours.
So you have to find this page - this could be difficult - and take a long time - but one way is by using copyscape.com and typing in the url of all your pages that are in supplemental results and it will show pages that have copied your content - then comes the long process of contacting the webmaster and issuing a cease or desist notice and if they don't remove the content then contact their hosting company - which could be difficult to trace also... search engines should have some algorithm to detect which page that content first appeared on.
Hello
Yes I agree, search engines should have some algorithm to detect which page that content first appeared on. Hopefully they are always working on improving their algorithms.
Kind Regards.
Tanya.
Posted by black hat | January 14, 2008 10:10 AM
Posted on January 14, 2008 10:10