Supplementals: Not What They Used To Be & Tips for Getting Out

[Webnauts]

Well, I have read your comments on this forum, as well as your own site/forum/blog - and I have to say that I have
agreed with everything you have said (from what I have read so far )

Martin, could it be that you are the only one?

[Halfdeck]

A couple other factors Googlers mentioned:

- URL complexity
- Page freshness

[Webnauts]

A couple other factors Googlers mentioned:

- URL complexity
- Page freshness

Page freshness? Can you tell us where you read that?

[wige]

I would have done that, if people would just trust me after all, and would not try to turn down or doubt things I am saying, since I only tell things when I am damn sure about. And have no time for debating as I had before.

Honestly, it has nothing to do with trust, or doubting the accuracy of your statements, at least for me personally. Its just that I am part hacker, and there is a bit of a philosophy to that side of me: The only way to learn anything, is to question everything.

[Webnauts]

Honestly, it has nothing to do with trust, or doubting the accuracy of your statements, at least for me personally. Its just that I am part hacker, and there is a bit of a philosophy to that side of me: The only way to learn anything, is to question everything.

I only confirm what is already known Wige.

[Webnauts]

I felt like posting this information, which clarifies pretty well the affects of the supplemental pages:
Got Supplementals? Accepting PageRank is Only The Beginning » Half’s SEO Notebook
and
Google Dumps Supplemental Name Not Index

[ldylion214]

My favorite reasons that pages go SI:

1. Exactly duplicated content
2. Over the top content/structure similarities
3. Pages with little or no content
4. Orphaned web pages. Pages that no one links to, including internal navigation
5. Poor website navigation
6. Pages due to canonicalization problems
7. Not enough quality back links
8. Long URLs, especially with long parameters, starting with a question mark (?) and being separated with an ampersand (&) and are not rewritten
9. Suspicious pages for spam-indexing, like non-unique and irrelevant to page content Meta tags, or linking to bad neighborhoods, etc.
10. Using duplicate description tags and title attribute across your website

So simply not doing these things will help keep you out.

I have a lot of these problems but I'm working to correct them. I notice everyday I have more in SI and less in main. Yesterday I made a robot.txt file including all my showitem.asp. Each one of those will be duplicates in the eyes of the SE. My question is how long will it take Google to no longer list those pages as SI so that my ratio isn't 95%. I also cleared alot of useless pages off my website. These were pages no one linked to anymore. I didn't realize those would cause issues if there was no link from my site to them.
I'm taking baby steps but I am trying. Seems the more I do the worse it gets but I think that is because I was clueless before I started picking the gurus brains here.

Best, Nicci

[Webnauts]

I have a lot of these problems but I'm working to correct them. I notice everyday I have more in SI and less in main. Yesterday I made a robot.txt file including all my showitem.asp. Each one of those will be duplicates in the eyes of the SE. My question is how long will it take Google to no longer list those pages as SI so that my ratio isn't 95%. I also cleared alot of useless pages off my website. These were pages no one linked to anymore. I didn't realize those would cause issues if there was no link from my site to them.
I'm taking baby steps but I am trying. Seems the more I do the worse it gets but I think that is because I was clueless before I started picking the gurus brains here.

Best, Nicci

I am dealing already with some sites and I am facing the same issue. No need to worry. Pages that had to be in the main index have been in the SI and vice versa.

The issues you see will be solved when Google will update the SI. And I noticed so far that takes place once a month so far.

So stay cool.