How To: Get Your Site Out of Google’s Supplemental Index

Since the inception of ‘Supplemental Results’ by Google, webmasters have struggled to get their content out of supplemental index of Google. New websites with fresh content often find their some or all of the pages in Google’s supplemental index and then it’s a long wait before your site’s content moves from supplemental index to the main index. Here are some tips to get your site out of Google’s supplemental index and move into the main index and stay in main index.

1. Make sure that every page of your site has its own unique title. If possible, give unique description to all the pages of the site.

2. All the pages must have unique content to avoid getting penalized by search engines. Avoid sub domain with similar content which is already in the pages of the main URL of your site.

3. Every page of your site must be linked through at least one other page of your site. The better inter-site linking you do, the chances of your pages not getting into supplemental results increases. Try to avoid links to pages using sessions IDs, don’t use dynamic navigation menu systems, avoid Javascript based navigation menus at all cost. Don’t use too many query strings in the URL. If a search engine crawler can not read your links, pages will not be indexed.

4. Adhere to W3C standards as much as possible. Get your HTML validated for standards. [This may not be applicable always]

5. If your content is short such as blog posts, try to use popular keywords in your content and link these pages from the main page or other pages of your site. [Similar to point # 3]

To check if pages from your site are in Google’s supplemental index, either type site:www.your-domain.com *** in Google’s search or use the nice handy tool at [oy-oy.eu]