Google Supplemental Index

I hope so.

Google is a strange search engine. My sites dispear from their SERPs all the time, they a couple of months later they show back up. I can allways tell when out of the blue one of my sites traffic doubles when Google reindexs it :). MSN and Yahoo seem to have more stable SERPs but not as much traffic as Google. It does make being a webmaster intresting.

The thing that really drives me nuts about things like this is that things like Chris's site is getting punished while mountains of subdomain sites are scraping the Internet and flooding search results. Google has got to do a better job of dealing with scraper sites and they need to start treating subdomains as if they are subfolders of a site. I track backlinks to my sites, references to my sites and copying of my content via Copyscape and Google Alert and I am stunned at the at the rate at which subdomains and scraper sites are proliferating.

Even without getting pushed to the supplemental index, having to compete against all of this subdomain spamming is really tough.

Chris - you seem to be out of the Supplemental Index - how did you do that?

Not fully out, but mostly out.

What I did:

1. Redesign the site, and am working on editing all the content.
2. Add Google sitemap.

I figure if anything it was duplicate content that put me int here so by changing things up I fixed it.

Thanks Chris :)

This thread has just told me why I'm not getting anywhere in google with one or two sites. I've just checked a few and nearly every page is a supplemental result. The thing that annoys me though is on both sides, ALL content is unique. I either wrote it, or I paid someone else to. The content is not on any other sites, just mine.

Does anyone know other reasons why google lists pages as supplemental?

Too low of a pagerank. Too obscure.

The thing is, before the last update all my sub pages had about a PR3 (some may have been 4), and my homepage was a 4. Then, after the update, my homepage was the only page left with pagerank. I don't know if I've been banned or what.

You get into the supplemental index if you have too few unique content on a page. Use unique titles, meta tags, headings, subheadings, a couple of paragraphs of unique text and you'll be fine, provided your navigation (top, left, right, footer) isn't more than 70% (wild guess) of the content.

The fact that you paid someone write the content for you doesn't mean its not published elsewhere. The person may be rewording another article (semi-duplicate) or someone else may be scraping your site.

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Originally Posted by A.N.Onym

The fact that you paid someone write the content for you doesn't mean its not published elsewhere. The person may be rewording another article (semi-duplicate) or someone else may be scraping your site.

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Using tools like http://copyscape.com can be very useful at finding out if an article is original before buying it and after publishing an article Copyscape can be very useful at tracking down and terminating pages that steal the article.

No, I checked when I bought the articles if they were published elsewhere. The titles just describe what a page is about. Eg, if it was about Mitsubishi cars, the title would be "Mitsubishi" etc.

here it is what Matt Cutts has to say about supplemental results:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...13828170903728