Help! I'm in Supplemental Purgatory!

Discussion in 'Google' started by cckid, Dec 6, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi everyone,
    I have a health related website that has me going up a wall recently.
    Since I started the site in August, I have ranked for two keywords somewhere between 2 and 810.
    Being a good web detective, I crawled this forum and and other to find out that my supplemental index is probably the cause. I went to a few sites to find out my supplemental ratio and it turns out that it's quite high, sitting at 87% right now (according to http://www.mapelli.info/tools/supplemental-index-ratio-calculator).
    My site is structured like this:
    I have a main page with several information pages, and then I have a blog. My blog is the killer. I've edited the robots.txt file but I don't that did any good.
    My question is: What is the best way to improve this supplemental ratio? It's been almost 3 weeks since tweaking my robots.txt file but still no love from the G monster.
    The last time I added content (2 days ago) the page quickly climbed up to 17 but today it's down to the 800's. I think Google wants to like my page b/c it's quality but the supplementals are not helping me at all.
    Thanks for any advice you can dish me!
    cckid
     
    cckid, Dec 6, 2007 IP
  2. mrcrowley

    mrcrowley Peon

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    I have this problem too with some of my sites... The only thing i can suggest is to update content more often of inside pages and promote them. Thats what i am doing.
     
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  3. sweetfunny

    sweetfunny Banned

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    Simply put you need more links as Pagerank determines what is in the Supplemental index.
     
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    u need to get links, a lot of them basically....it took me out of the suppl... within 1 month
     
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  5. cckid

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    thanks for the tips...but what's the best way to increase links quickly? Forums and directory submissions? I submitted the site to about 50 directories so far.
     
    cckid, Dec 6, 2007 IP