Supplemental Index

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)

 

Are the articles all unique?

 

As I got informed - significant part should be, maybe some 10-15% could be bad data

 

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.

 

How long should it take - it's 2 weeks over

 

noone can tell you that, only google knows the answer.

 

Thats bad answer mate!

 

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.

 

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
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

 

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???

 

i have the same problem

 

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