How to get out of Google Supplemental Results



google hellLet’s answer some serious questions:

1. What’s a “supplemental result?”

The official answer can be found here.

The main idea is that it’s wrong to have supplemental pages (also known as Google Hell) and this will damage your site’s visibility and rankings in the search engine.

2. How can I find out how many supplemental pages I have?

Simple:

do a google search for this term:

site:www.yoursite.com *** -sljktf

Don’t get fooled by the small numbers… repeat the search with the omitted results included.

3. How to get out of supplemental results?

Clean Your Blog Sidebar (Remove all the unnecessary and duplicate content from the sidebar)
Remove Duplicate Content (Remove your site duplicate content the easy way)

Don’t publish a post in more than one category (Duplicate content penalization )

In my case, 90% of my supplemental results were the automatic translated pages.

I’ve removed the plugin and got 404 on all those pages.

Got to Google Webmaster Tools and removed manually all those 250 pages.

(they say it takes at least 180 days to get out of the index.. but as you can see they already removed 120 pages in two weeks)

Create an XHTML Sitemap

Use the More tag on every post (Again to avoid duplicate content. The post will appear one again in the main page.)

This are the steps that I’ve taken and I’ve got rid of 50% of my supplemental results and I can already see a growth in the search engine traffic.


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