I've got a 30K page site (a unique directory) that's PR4 and a few years old. It gets reasonable SE traffic. couple of hundred hits a day. A few months ago it went almost all supplemental. I suspect that some of the problem is that the html, headers, and footers on all the pages are a bit repetitive. Also some of the descriptions are duplicates of those found elsewhere (I purchased the site so I'm not sure of the source of all the data). Given this background, what are the chances of my pulling the site out of the supplementals just by restructuring the html on the pages to make it a lot leaner? Has anyone managed to get a site this size and type out of the supplementals by tweaking the onpage stuff? If so, how long does it take?
Hi Wheel.. can you give us a link to the directory? I'm facing the same problem and want someone to help. We launched a new travel links directory a few months ago, and it got PR4 in the recent PR update. None of the pages seem to be indexed and a lot of results for Site Query on Google give Supplemental Results. Why have only the rss.php pages been indexed and none of the other pages in the directory have been indexed? Any way of getting out of the Supplemental penalty??
My directory is www.searchdepo.com. I think there are two problems; one is the heavy code, another is that some of the listing snippets are not unique. I don't want to rebuild the snippets, I'm wondering if it's worth taking the time to try the 'easy way out'. Funny thing is, the site still gets 200 organic visits a day.
@rosiee007: All your pages contains the same meta descriptions, keywords, and on every page at the top is the same content line Book Hotels.. .. Futher the directory is empty. Get more (unique) content to your directory. @wheel: Same problem, no or little description tag with almost the same content for all pages, on the top of every page the same text: Web Site Pr.. .. Probably because of the listings (content) in your directory is why you still get traffic from se. Same advise, create more unique content to the directory. Both: Add google sitemaps Good luck