How to find your supplemental pages in Google

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

Enjoy!

 

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

 

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

 

Got 87,900 on one of our sites

 

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

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

 

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

 

Those are wildcards, match any text.

Good tip mad, thanks.

-Michael

 

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

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

 

Very nice tip, thanks.

 

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!

 

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=10...l&q=site:www.digitalpoint.com+***&btnG=Search

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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/

 

Any general tips on fixing the supplementals?

 

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

No Supplemental will resist to this

 

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.

 

Any general tips on fixing the supplementals?

tottaly agreed with Ask

Further points

- remove duplication
- proper redirect

 

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.

 

YAY Nice tip.

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