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How to get out of Google's supplemental results
Google uses two indexes for its search results. The normal
index and the supplemental results index.
What are Google's supplemental results and what's
the problem?
Google defines supplemental
results as follows:
"A supplemental result is just like a regular web
result, except that it's pulled from our supplemental
index. We're able to place fewer restraints on sites
that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do
on sites that are crawled for our main index. For example,
the number of parameters in a URL might exclude a site
from being crawled for inclusion in our main index; however,
it could still be crawled and added to our supplemental
index.
If you're a webmaster, please note that the index
in which a site is included is completely automated;
there's no way to select or change the index in which
a site appears. Please also be assured that the index
in which a site is included doesn't affect its PageRank."
If your web pages are listed in the supplemental results
then it is likely that your web pages could not be parsed
correctly by Google's standard crawler.
The problem with Google's supplemental results are that
they are only supplemental. If your web pages are listed
in the supplemental results then they won't be returned
very often for regular search queries.
How to find out if your web pages are in the supplemental
results
An easy way to find out how many of your pages are listed
in Google's supplemental results is to search for the following
on Google.com:
site:www.domain.com ***
Search for that phrase and then proceed to the last result
pages to find the supplemental results. Of course, you
have to replace www.domain.com with your own domain
name.
How to get out of Google's supplemental results
Most web sites have pages in Google's supplemental results.
It means that Google had difficulty to index these pages
or that Google had other problems with these pages.
- Make sure that your web pages don't contain any spam
elements and that you don't use any spam techniques to
promote your web site. Using spam techniques to promote
your web site is often the reason why a web site doesn't
get good rankings. Better focus on ethical
search engine optimization methods.
- Make it easy for search engines to index your web pages.
If possible don't use web page URLs that contain question
marks or the & symbol. Make sure that the HTML code
of your web pages offers what search engines need. Use
IBP's Top 10 Optimizer to prepare
your web pages.
- Make these pages easy to find for Google's web crawler.
The more links point to your web pages, the more likely
it is that search engine crawlers fill find your web pages.
Use ARELIS to get good inbound
links to your site.
Most web sites have pages in Google's supplemental results.
The easier you make it Google to index your web pages the
more pages of your site will be listed in Google's normal
results.
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