If you are getting out-ranked on your own content pages on Google, then it is very possible you are in Google’s Supplemental Index.
You might be asking 2 questions:
1) How did I get into the supplemental index?
2) How do I get out of Google’s supplemental index?
Answer to question #1: My guess is that you’re in the supplemental index because:
1) You have little unique text on your webpages (maybe a lot of images, and little text),
2) Duplicate content,
3) Your Title and Description meta tags are all identical,
4) Your pages have similar header, sidebar, and footer sections,
5) Your pages are dynamically generated from a database,
6) Possibly most of your links are reciprocal links (not one way incoming links),
7) Orphaned web pages, which are pages that no one links to, including yourself.
Answer to question #2:
1) Rewrite unique Titles & Descriptions for each webpage.
2) Add some unique content to your webpages.
3) Link to any orphaned pages.
After your changes, it’s time to resubmit your site to Google. The best way to do that is to use Google Sitemaps.
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Hi All,
Our website, http://www.vkinfotek.com has three books listed and pages which carry the content of each book.
All the content pages are moved to supplemental results. I am confused.
What do i do ? Change the Contents of the book ?
BTW one of the book is to be listed on the google books program.
Kris
I have an impression that Google put all new sites in its Supplemental Results or so called ‘sendbox’. Google always favors old and big sites.
I have been trying for month to get out of Google’s supplemental results with no joy. My website LabelValue.com has had a majority of its product pages listed as supplemental. Few of my product pages have been in and out of the index – see Dymo 30256 and Dymo 30252. Has anyone had any progress in getting out of the supplemental index?
This is an excellent, concise detailing of the ins and outs of Google’s Supplemental Index.
In reviewing the website of a new client I noticed that every webpage indexed is in the supplemental. Will excessive links (100+) on a page send it to supplemental? That seems to be the largest issue with this site, along with many dynamic pages.
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