What are all the possible reasons for a page to have ‘Supplemental Result’ next to the url in the Google search results?
-not enough incoming links -content not orignial or too similar to others -you pissed off a Google employee at a conference and he's trying to get you back. *The best way to try and pull out of it is to build strong links to your site.
Also it might be - bad outgoing links - bad ratio of deep links / domain links - too much similarity in meta information in pages (title, description)
The number one reason is duplicate content. It's not hard to get out of supplemental region either. Just put more content on pages that make them different from the other pages on your website. Give it a few weeks and you'll see them start to come out of supplemental results. Been there, done that a million times. Hexed
I think there must be other explanations. For example see: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=site:www.france-renovation.com&btnG=Search&meta= Site is 9 months old, I wrote every word myself, never had one single visitor sent by google (but does very well in yahoo and msn) perhaps it's the 'pissed off a google employee' reason?
1. You have duplication in internal navigation 2. maybe you have duplication in meta keywords tag 3. You have 10% of deep links / overal number of links
Hmm very odd. I just had a look at your source code and it's well done too. You want to know what I think? I think you originally had more weight in Google a few months ago. And since then, you've lost a few backlinks which made your website less attractive to Google and Google decided not to deep crawl your webpages any longer. Do you still get hits on these pages that are in supplemental? I doubt it. How to correct this? Get a nice PR5 index page to link to you and give it a few weeks. I do see that you have a few fair PR4 links, the one http://www [dot] french-property [dot] com/regions/bretagne/services.htm.. but the link is very werid in itself. When it links to you, it links to it's own link php page then that page redirects to you. Not sure how Google views this, although if it picked up the link it should be okay. Still, you only have a PR2 on your index page which means Google views you pretty poorly especially if you've been online for 9 months. Sign up to www.three-way-links.com and do a couple trades on there.. it's only $5/month, probably the best investment you've ever made into your website. BTW your first two trades are free. Hexed
Hi Thanks for these replies. Hexed, you may be closer than you think. When I bought the domain I didn't know it had been previously owned (and possibly banned) and i had to do a reinclusion request. Google eventually told me all was well, the site wasn't banned etc, but it took ages to get the pages even showing as supplemental. And about 6 months to go from PR0 to PR2. Those french-property. com links are also a mystery as you say. One of them at http://www. french-property.com/services is on a PR6 page and there are several on regional PR4/PR5 pages. But I don't know if they count or not. You are right, I kind of stopped bothering with the site and gave up looking for links etc but I should restart. I am a free member at 3 way links perhaps I'll join properly. Adomovic, re the suggestion that I have 'duplicate navigation'? Is that really a problem do you think. If so it applies to most of my sites and I imagine lots of other peoples as well - like everyone who uses 'PHP includes' to add the menu to every page, every wordpress blog, etc etc Billshorters - sorry, not trying to hijack your thread. Hopefully my site is acting as a case study to help answer your original question
Supplemental results are pages G has found to essentially be duplicates. That could mean they've found pages at your site in both the www and non www version or copy/verbiage that is similar on sites outside of your own. Supplemental listings are the kiss of death and must be handled in the appropriate manner in order tog et them removed for the supp serp.
Probably no, I just tried to think WHAT might be the problem and I've noticed that 30% of text on your page in navigation. But those issues with previous domain ban and loosing links seems to me are likely more the reason.