I have a site: www.aspectart.com that is listed in the supplemental index in Google. I've decided it's finally time to do something about it, but I get varying pieces of advice from people, and in the end it seems no-one really knows what has happened. So can anyone help me out, and let me know what I need to do? Theories so far: 1) All my meta tags, and page titles are the same (site was built using a template) 2) I have lots of content from the encyclopedia Brittanica e.g. http://www.aspectart.com/Artists/Da%20Vinci/Da-Vinci.php 3) The site is in the "sandbox" 4) I did something that's been viewed as spammy 5) I don't have enough inbound links 6) Only Google knows the answer. 7) All of the above well, I know I need to deal with 1), but this is more of an SEO thing and would not lead things to being supplemental so I'm told. The 2) should only affect the pages where there is duplicated text if this was the problem. 3) the site is 2 years old, and IS listed in Google. 4) Maybe, as I used to have some random link exchanges in the past, but these have since been removed (Google still has the old link pages in their cache though). 5) this would only effect ranking surely, and have nothing to do with being listed as supplemental. 6) Probably, but as they don't answer questions like this not much help. 7) it may well that the effect is amplified because of a number of things I've done wrong. Any help would be very gratefully received.
You've got various things right in the above. I suggest the following: - remove all duplicate content (see also copyscape.com) and start writing your own content => unique content => Google will love that! - change all meta into different meta's for every webpage - get some decent backlinks, preferable deeplinks. Skip that sandbox story and read at jimboykin how to gain a high serp. http://www.jimboykin.com/site-backlinks/
Improve your contents...make it unique as whatifind said Google will love it...also it is important that you have different titles on each page of your site and make it in relevance with the content of your page also with your meta tags...and improve your link popularity...submit your site to link directories, create articles and submit it to article directories with your link on the resource box use some of your keywords on its anchor text it'll help you in regards to rankings...