Fix Supplemental Index in Google

Need help on how to fix the supplemental index in Google? Here are questions for you to analyze about the contents in all your web pages:

1. Do you refresh it regularly?


2. Are you careful not to over seed it with keywords?


3. Does the content reflect and support the headlines, page title, and meta tags?


4. Do your links conform to the best-linking practices described in the other articles in the Linking School?


5. Are you sure that none of your links leads to questionable domains or bad neighborhoods?


6. Do you add new links on a steady, incremental basis?

If you are getting out-ranked by your own content pages, then it is very possible that you are in Google's Supplemental Index!



You might be asking two simple questions:

1. How did I get into the supplemental index?


2. How do I get out of Google's supplemental index?

Here are my speculations in your web pages:

1. You have little unique text on your web pages (maybe a lot of images, and little text)


2. Duplicate content - copied contents from other sites


3. Your title tags and meta description tags are all identical


4. Your pages have similar header, sidebar, and footer sections


5. Your pages are dynamically generated from a database


6. Possibly most of your links are reciprocal links, and you got a few one way incoming links.


7. Orphaned web pages, which are pages that no one links to, including your domain.

Here are my solutions to get out of Google's supplemental index:

1. Rewrite your title tag and meta description tag for each webpage and make them unique.


2. Add unique contents to your web pages. For the copied contents, rewrite them by simply rephrasing the sentences.


3. Make sure that you don't have orphaned web pages.


4. Remove excess on-page optimizations.

After your changes, it's time to update your sitemap file and resubmit it to Google. This is the best way to get out of the supplemental hell!