Basic steps to avoid Supplemental index ?

Hi there,

I want to know what are the basic steps to secure permanently every page of a new website from being fallen into the supplemental index.

I know the following steps

1. Original content
2. Back links to every page

Please tell more.

Thanks
bushib

 

if you follow the 2 steps you have mentioned you should be fine.

 

Unique page titles

 

Unique page titles with a given site or within the Internet (Which I think is highly difficult)

 

Making sure the pages are unique is a big issue. Even down to the design. For instance, let's say you have your navigation off to the left side on every site. With the crawlers, they read pages like a book, from left to right. What's a way to defeat this? A great way is to have dynamic content on the page so when the page is cached, it is different content each time it lands on that page and other pages.

Supplemental Results are by a case by case basis though. The above scenario I've seen happen and on other sites the left nav never made the page go supplemental.

Also, make sure you have a robust inbound link structure. That also helps.

 

how do we know if a site is in supplemental index?

i have a very old site not updated for 2 yrs and the last time i check, the index page is no longer in the google cache. but 2 of the webpages still are.
so is this supplemental index?

i also read on another part of this forum that changing the keywords is also required to avoid supplemental index. thats understandable, but do we need to change the description as well?

and is the description tag important anyway? i seen sites ranking 1st (ok, its a moderate compeititive keyword) but have no description tag. google just took the site content for the description. So can i omit the description, making it unique for every page is a pain, if u count in the title (which i have done so already, phew) and the keywords.

 

unique titles and descriptions, links from your other pages

 

You know when it says below your site supplemtal results and it suks

 

Why does google put pages in the Supplemental Results?

Here are the 3 reasons:
1. Duplicate Content - take someone elses content.
2. No Content - create pages with no content (empty pages)
3. Orphaned web pages. Pages that no one links to, including yourself.

Solution: Make unique contents of your page, put quality and good contents must be informative, and get many backlinks as many as you can, it must related to your site.

 

First way to get some links is to link from your pages that arn't in the supplemental index to pages that are. Then get some external links if this doesn't fix the problem.

 

I have a post regarding this one. I think the most important items to consider are:

1. Placement of good quality links to different pages.
2. Unique pages (content, title, desc) and sufficient content.

 

To avoid supplemental index put different title and meta description.

 

Strange - on my new site some links are not supplemental and some are - I have good intersite linking. Anyone have a clue as to why this would be?

 

Also make sure to change your .htaccess file so that you only have either the www. example.com or example.com version of all your website so that there won't be any duplicate pages.