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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Want To Know Which Pages Are In Google's Supplemental Results?

Now, Google's Supplemental Index is not as big and scary as you first thought. It is not a punishment, it is just that Google does not think the page in question to be that important or it is too similar to other pages.

This could be because you have directly lifted content from another site. More likely, is that the content is too similar to content already on your site.

Also, if your site has a lot of pages but does not have either quality links into the site or many links in general (or both!), you are spreading your importance too thin. Google then takes a view that you don't deserve to have lots and lots of pages in their main index.

Having said all of this, is the Supplemental Index a desirable place to be... the answer is, an emphatic, NO!

So, a quick way to check which pages on your site are in Google's Supplemental Index, you just type this into the Google search bar.

site:www.YourDomain.com *** -view

Obviously, substitute YourDomain with your actual domain!

Hope there are not too many in there!

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