How to find how many pages of your site are in Google’s supplemental index?

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As Wikipedia puts it:

Supplemental Result is a supplementary Google search Index of less important web pages according to the Google Page Rank

It is said that the supplemental results are really Google’s way of filtering out duplicate content. Therefore pages that are modified to contain enough unique content will eventually make there way out of the supplemental index and back into Google’s main index.

So supplemental result pages are those pages that have less significant or duplicate content (atleast Google thinks so).

But do you know how many of your blog’s pages are in the supplemental index? Here’s a quick way to check it:

Type in site:yourblog.com *** -view in Google’s search bar and there you see pages of your site that are in Google’s supplemental index listed out.

You can follow these tips to get your blog out of the supplemental index easily.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 13th, 2007 at 4:19 am and is filed under blogging. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

20 Responses to “How to find how many pages of your site are in Google’s supplemental index?”

  1. Nice article, looks like I have a lot of supplimentory pages. Will have to take care of it.

  2. Yeah Nirmal, you have many. There’s always robots.txt to help you out :)

  3. Shankar,This is cool.But the worse thing is that I get 135 results for my blog.My Blog is only 13-15 days old and it is showing this much result.

    I google searched:
    site:myblog.com ***

    Right?

    Then why so much results?

  4. Ramkarthik: You missed the -view part. Even when I searched (link), I don’t seem to get any supplementary pages for your blog.

    Those 135 pages are the actual pages in your blog indexed by Google, and those pages are not in the supplemental index.

  5. Oh thanks God.Shankar,when I did like you said I didn’t find any.So I thought I did it wrong and removed the view part.And it resulted like that.So till now I don’t have any.

  6. This is a good tip. I recommend to check periodically (i would say once a month) for pages in supplemental results.

  7. And BTW – a simple way to stay away of supplemental is not to assign a post to multiple categories.

  8. I have lot of supplemental results, i have to follow these tips i think

  9. Well, nice tip. I knew about supplemental index thingy but really didn’t care to see how we can check it. Thanks once again :)

  10. I’m glad you guys liked the tip.
    Gili:Avoiding assigning multiple categories is a good idea. Thanks for sharing.

  11. Yup! I used this formula a lot. Nice to hear that you are using it too! :)

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  13. Nice tip.

    I found some of my pages in supplemental results. Will try to get them back to main index.

  14. Freakitude: I’m glad you liked it

  15. I use the SEO for firefox extension. It gives a comprehensive evaluation of any site with backlinks from .edu, .gov domains, alexa rank, and so on. Even the no. of supplemental results.

  16. Vijay: Yeah, that’s a good extension, Vijay. It will be really useful for all webmasters. This tip may prove useful at times when we don’t have it installed on our Firefoxies :D

  17. [...] Solving duplicate content problems can help bloggers Rank higher in search engines and prevent genuine website pages from being trashed into supplemental index. [...]

  18. gr8 articl

  19. Thanks, Luv.

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