Is your website pages are in google supplemental results?

Let see how can we tackle this small problem. This is not a big issue. You need not to worry about your supplemental result. Take it simply and try to come out from supplemental index. Generally, there are two types of Google index - main index and supplemental index. When we see our index pages by site command, search pages shows list of index pages in search engine. Pages engaged with supplemental index looks with "supplemental result" below the URL in SERPs.

Let’s see Google’s official definition from their webmaster page:

"Supplemental sites are part of Google’s auxiliary index. We’re able to place fewer restraints on sites that we crawl for this supplemental index than we do on sites that are crawled for our main index. For example, the number of parameters in a URL might exclude a site from being crawled for inclusion in our main index; however, it could still be crawled and added to our supplemental index.

The index in which a site is included is completely automated; there’s no way for you to select or change the index in which your site appears. Please be assured that the index in which a site is included does not affect its PageRank."

To find out if your web pages are in the supplemental results. Simply write your URL with site command as: site:www.domain.com ***

Search for that phrase and then proceed to the last result pages to find the supplemental results. Of course, you have to replace www.domain.com with your own domain name. Result will look like this example:



There are many reasons of supplemental result like duplicate contents or no content, same title and meta description in pages, low quality and irrelevant external links, bad URL structure (within dynamic sites), broken links, deleted or removed pages from server and re-direct pages, Orphaned web pages. Pages that no one links to, including yourself. But it does not affects on traffic and ranking factors. Obscure queries is a new technology that can return more results for queries that for example have a small number of results. So it might not affect the results for a popular search, but for a researcher doing a more specific query, it can improve the recall of the results.

A simple statement given by Matt Cutts(Google Sr. Engg.)said about supplemental RESULTS

"Pat, you definitely have no manual spam penalties. Think of the supplemental Results as an index with its own supplemental Google bot, or (S.G.). S.G. doesn’t come around very often (sometimes not for months), but when it does, it goes much deeper.

When the supplemental Google bot last visited your site, you had the www pages. Now you’ve gotten rid of those, but S.G. hasn’t been back around to see that. The normal Googlebot with the main index has been around plenty, and knows all about your change to go non-www, but normal Googlebot doesn’t have the ability to go into the supplemental results and change the urls.

My advice would be to develop your site normally and not to worry much about the supplementalal results. I’ll be happy to pass on the feedback that people want the S.G. to visit often enough to see changes in the site like this."

You can resolve it simply by make some changes and updation in your web pages. Modification may be on any factors like meta update, content update or url update. Some simple tips give below to resolve supplemental result.

1. Removed all duplicate content from your site. If you do not want to remove the content, write those content with synonym words with same meaning of para. If your pages have no content add some relevant content basically based on keywords will beneficial.

2. Your all pages should be unique title and meta description and meta keywords(optional).

3. Removed links from low quality and irrelevant pages. You do it by sending request email to website webmaster or owner to removed the links from their pages. Get relevant links from indexed pages.

4. Make proper url structure using folders, if your website is dynamic.

5. Removed all broken links from site.

6. Make sure that your web pages don't contain any spam elements.

After your changes, you need to resubmit your site to Google. The best way to do that is to use Google Sitemaps. When google will crawl your all modified pages, your website pages will be indexed in main and came out from supplemental index.