Are My Pages Supplemental?

Google, up until a few weeks ago was showing supplemental results. They have now decided that it would be better if they didn’t show what pages were supplemental. So how do you know if your pages are supplemental? Well there are some easy ways that you know your pages will fall supplemental:

• Not enough content on the page.

• Duplicate content – Either taken from another site or from the same site.
• Orphaned pages… Pages not linked to any other inside your site
• Titles and descriptions the same on every page
• All links to your site are reciprocals and possibly to bad neighbors
• A page that no longer exists may have an old cached version of itself in the supplemental listings

You should always look at a cached version of a page where possible. Supplemental pages tend to get indexed less frequently. Compare the cached date of you inner pages to interior pages. If the difference is in months, the pages are supplemental. You can see a cached version of a page by entering cache:www.yourd0main.com into Google’s search.

Note: A page in the supplemental doesn’t mean it will not rank. It will only rank if it is a term where Google has little or no results found in the main index.

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