Getting Out Of The Supplemental Index
Have you noticed not all of you pages show up in Google? Have you used a tool like Aaron Walls SEO for FireFox and found your pages are indeed in the supplemental index? Don’t know what a supplemental result is?
The best way to get your results out of the supplemental index is to make sure:
- Make sure your supplemental result pages are not duplicates of other pages you may have. Include unique meta descriptions, titles, keywords, and copy in the page.
- If the page has to be a duplicate ( because of site architecture, like in a blog ) then make sure to make the duplicate not indexable by Google. Include a “no index” meta tag or exclusion in your robots.txt file.
- Use internal linking to the supplemental result to help define importance to the page and bring it out of the supplemental index.
- Use external linking to the supplemental page for the same reason above.
These have been the best methods I have used to pull pages out of the supplemental index and into the main index for clients to date.