i checked my new forum address in google today and i see many links shows as Supplemental Result , now is that going to be a problem? what do i need to do to get it fixed.
Pages with duplicate content go into the supplemental index. On my e-commerce website, nearly half the pages are in there because of item descriptions being so similar. Since my home page and main category pages are not supplemental, I have not noticed any problems. To get pages out, diversify their content.
Make sure you meta tag descriptions and keywords are different for each page. Different titles too. It would take forever to manually change those meta tags for each pages, so I just take them completely out of the html for all pages except the homepage. Without the meta tag descriptions and keywords, google will spider you content to fill that info in automatically (got me out of supplemental for many pages this way).
if i will use this type of meta tag then it's ok? page 1 123 xyz mnb, 123, xyz, mnb page 2 456 xyz mnb, 456, xyz, mnb page 3 999 xyz mnb, 999, xyz, mnb i will add this is in my title , keyword and description so it's going to Supplemental Result or not going?
IMO you shouldn't put that on your title. That numbers could ruin your ranking on search Engines. Also try to avoid the ',' character on title, use '-' or ' ' (space) instead.
Maybe, if your forum start with many real articles or users posts, then google consider it as a valuable site. There is not much content there now.
from the results i see pages like profile, search and some other pages are all indexed as supplement result.
I think Google did something about their supplemental index.... Pages in Supplemental Results didn't rank well in Google....
IMO the title is the most important in site factor. There you should put a brief phrase with your primary keyword for that page. If you're going to fill that title with numbers at least put them at the end.
It's virtually impossible to change the content of a forum. Posts are what they are. Both of my forums which are primarily designed to generate Adsense income have gone down the toilet. They both went from a PR5 to a 2and 75% of my pages went into supplemental and my revenue has dropped by 75%. Google has become the self appointed Internet police.
No, that is wrong. Wrong as well, although good advice. Just isn't why the pages are supp. Supplemental index is a function of not having enough link power for one reason or another. People keep associating it with duplicate content because many times when you see sites with many duplicated pages, you see it in the supp index. Duplication is not the issue though. I was going to post a lengthy explanation, then realized I should probably save the nitty gritty for a blog post, then just post the link. I'll do that today or tomorrow. In essence though, work on incoming links to strategic places, and a decent sitemap, etc. Btw, you still don't want duplicate content, as that will lead to being buried under a duplication filter (what's hidden under the "repeat the search with the omitted results included" links), and if it's because there are multiple ways to reach the same content (ie, showpost.php being reachable 20 diff ways to the same post) then you would be needlessly diluting your internal PageRank. -Michael
it's a punishment . supp. pages are the pages which have lost the quality for a temp. time. the main criteria for those pages is page rank. you must find backlinks for your site
Yeah I should have added that it's best to HAVE meta descriptions and keywords, but they have to be different for each page. Relevant links are the way to get those pages out of supplemental. It's just that duplicate content was the problem in my case. I had pages with decent page ranks, but they remained in supplemental until I got rid of the duplicate meta tags. So I'll append the advice: First get quality links to pages in the supplemental to help them climb out. Make sure you take care of duplicate content problems so that all of your pages aren't filtered. Supplemental results definitely show up in searches, just not that often. Supplementals that have duplicate content problems are about as useful as pages that aren't indexed.
I found that if the page from where we are getting backlink goes to supplemental results, affect us too and ultimately our page also goes in supplemental result. Do we have any sure shot idea to come out of supplemental probs?