Supplemental Index

Discussion in 'SEO' started by MN Sandy, Jul 28, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hey mates, there are many great minds so maybe can give some insight on this particular case of one buddy:

    www.mensarticles.com

    Pages are all indexed and almost all supplemented:

    allinurl:mensarticles.com

    shows the pages that are not supplemented.

    So basically 99% is supplemented.

    Site has sitemap submited like 10 days a go and so. What I see is that google updates several of pages with in cache but in the same time decreased from 70 to about 40 now ?!

    It's weird?! what to do?!

    Site was also changed and removed heavy navigation to make each content page look as much as possible unique.

    Any insights into this?

    MSN seems is the only that likes the site (altough yahoo have indexed too but little results in traffic)
     
    MN Sandy, Jul 28, 2006 IP
  2. mad4

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    #2
    Are the articles all unique?
     
    mad4, Jul 28, 2006 IP
  3. MN Sandy

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    #3
    As I got informed - significant part should be, maybe some 10-15% could be bad data :)
     
    MN Sandy, Jul 28, 2006 IP
  4. Rod

    Rod Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Wait until the sitemap kicks in and see what happens. Supplemental indexing suggests duplicate content but I don't see any attribution on articles so I assume they are unique. Google is is some sort of indexing turmoil at present, so check your results in a week or so.
     
    Rod, Jul 28, 2006 IP
  5. MN Sandy

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    How long should it take - it's 2 weeks over ;)
     
    MN Sandy, Jul 28, 2006 IP
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    chachacallis Well-Known Member

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    #6
    noone can tell you that, only google knows the answer.
     
    chachacallis, Jul 28, 2006 IP
  7. MN Sandy

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    Thats bad answer mate! :)
     
    MN Sandy, Jul 29, 2006 IP
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    I really doubt they do anymore. I don't think since bugdaddy they have any real control over it anymore. There seems to be no logic anymore to what works/doesn't. Either they have some sort of random number generator deciding what is supplemental or the system is broke. I'm betting they lost control around April this year, and still don't have a clue how to fix it.
     
    johnweb, Jul 29, 2006 IP
  9. MikeSwede

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    They do not have a clue what they are doing. most of my pages have gone supplemental and the cached pages are since August last year, so WTF is going on:confused:
    You would think that when they crawl the site, with or without a sitemap, they would find that pages are still there and that they have been updated since August last year....morons :(
     
    MikeSwede, Jul 29, 2006 IP
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    #10
    I agree with Mike. Sitemaps should be irrelevant. Yahoo, MSN and a host of other SEs don't require a "special" sitemap in order to properly crawl and index a site. Why should google???
     
    wibr, Jul 29, 2006 IP
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    i have the same problem
     
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  12. MN Sandy

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    well, sitemaps seemed to be like a hole so to speak to get these untouched sites indexed again, so no more last years index but normal, actual data.

    interesting thing seems that stronger/older sites has less % of supplemental than these who are quite new; but again maybe its just in mine industry;

    btw, so far i got informed there is 72 pages out of supplemental; unbelievable;)
     
    MN Sandy, Aug 1, 2006 IP