HRoth - 12:48 pm on Dec 12, 2005 (gmt 0)

I too have been puzzled (and worried) by why about 5% of my pages were supplemental.

It seems like some of them were turned supplemental because someone was using my content. When I contacted those people and they took it down, those pages quit being supplemental. But most of the supplementals did not appear to be duplicated. So that sure wasn't the whole answer.

A lot of them were old pages that I had taken out of the loop of the site because I had discontinued selling the item. The content was still up there to catch people doing a search, but you couldn't get to the page from within the site without doing a site search, and some of them were very old. They must get hardly any visits. I thought being orphaned and few visits were valid reasons for them to be supplemental.

But some pages were for items I was still selling plenty of. On these pages, I updated the content, checked the keyword density, made sure the meta description was good, and validated the html as much as I could. Nothing seemed to happen.

Today I checked again, as I do every day, and now ALL of the pages, whether I touched them or not, are back from supplemental status. Very mysterious.