How to find your supplemental pages in Google

[mad4]

Search for site:www.yoursite.com *** to see a list of the supplemental pages in your site.

Enjoy!

[britishguy]

A step deeper than site:yoursite.com thanks for the 'heads up'

[mad4]

www.digitalpoint.com has 109,000 (Shawn is very worried)
www.mattcutts.com has 173 (including www.mattcutts.com/blog/ apparently)
www.google.com has 623,000 (best work on those meta tags)
www.amazon.com has 11,300,000 (!!!!!!!)
www.ebay.com has 6,740
www.yahoo.com has 3,260
www.microsoft.com has 275,000
www.apple.com has 31,600
www.digg.com has 305,000

[britishguy]

Got 87,900 on one of our sites

[johnweb]

Here's an online tool to check the number of supplemental pages as well

http://oy-oy.eu/google/supplemental/

[ferret77]

what do the stars do when its not a site: search?

[mvandemar]

Originally Posted by ferret77

what do the stars do when its not a site: search?

Those are wildcards, match any text.

Good tip mad, thanks.

-Michael

[nddb]

Hahaha.. someone already has adwords for ****

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...**&btnG=Search

[! Ask !]

Very nice tip, thanks.

[Phynder]

Boo hoo - I don't want to see what is in supplemental hell... Is there a way to find which pages are NOT supplemental?

Excellent find!

[corinaw]

Have you been using the site command, and scrolling through the entire google index to find if any of your pages listed as supplemental? (I have. )

I just ran across an excellent tip (thread linked below) to list only supplemental pages in the google index. If you have a lot of pages this is so much easier than paging through the site results.

Here's the thread I read with the info:

http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006160.html

Here's the command to list supp pages in google: ( site:yoursite.com *** )

http://www.google.com/search?num=100...**&btnG=Search

Here's a tool to list ONLY supp pages per dc.

http://oy-oy.eu/google/supplemental/

[Phynder]

No ideas on how to find pages that are NOT supplemental?

[minstrel]

The technique was also described on Randfish's SEOmoz blog today.

[billyzelsnack]

Woo.. Apparently I did a good job cleaning up my site. Only a single supplemental! It's not even a page, it's just a pdf. I guess it was worth the work/

[cgchris99]

Any general tips on fixing the supplementals?

[! Ask !]

- Different Meta-tags
- Unique content
- Deep quality links

No Supplemental will resist to this

[cgchris99]

The meta tags are easily done. However, when you have an ecommerce site, many of the pages look similar with small changes for the products. So I guess for descriptions, I just make up a bunch of "stuff" for the text to try to make it long enough to fool google into thinking it's unique for the sake of uniqueness.

[tb1234]

Any general tips on fixing the supplementals?

tottaly agreed with Ask

Further points

- remove duplication
- proper redirect

[billyzelsnack]

It was mostly removing dupe content for me. I've had my site in various places over the years and the search results were a mess. After that I let google know about by changes with robots.txt and the google url removal console.

[Nick_Mayhem]

YAY Nice tip.

Thanks for sharing it. I am playing around with it right now.