Homepage supplemental, interior pages aren't

Could it be a server issue?

[Marcia]

The site hasn't got enough links or PR, so it's no surprise or issue that some pages are Supplemental, though not all. BUT - I just did see today, for the first time ever, that the homepage itself is supplemental and some interior pages aren't.

The reason I wonder about this site in particular is because while there was no problem for the whole life of the site (a few years old), there were some server configuration issues when I moved to a new host (problems with another site there, too) and the site is out of MSN altogether.

What kind of problems can be caused by server or IP issues? Uunique IP, by the way.

[MThiessen]

Hey Marcia,

Might not be a problem with the server. I have a site where the homepage, though not supplemental, is dramtically lower in PR then the interior pages.

The reason I believe is because the homepage is not interesting, not linked well, but the content on the interior pages are great, and linked very well.

Is this possible with yours?

[edited by: MThiessen at 1:24 pm (utc) on Jan. 30, 2007]

[Marcia]

Same as always, except for scrapers I believe all the links point to the homepage, which is PR4 - others are lower, some show no PR.

There are some configuration issues, another domain had an A-name error and was showing a ton of referrers for other sites on the server, and Yahoo's crawler got sent into a loop with tens of thousands of hits on a non-esistent subdirectory.

The reason I suspect a problem with this one is that there never, ever was any problem until I moved it. Got toally dumped by MSN, and now ths strange Google thing. Unless it's something strange on Google's end.

[netmeg]

I think there are still issues with the site command. I keep hitting some DCs where every url except for the first two of any of my sites only returns two results and then goes either into supplementals or filtered results. That's over 60 some sites, and if anything, traffic is up, SERPs are normal - it's just the site command that looks strange.

[fishfinger]

I'm seeing that too on some sites (out of 45 or so).

I've also had pages (including the homepage) from 3 sites apparently completely dumped from the index recently (i.e. nothing using site: command). However you could find them using allinurl:

2 lost rankings for the 'gone' pages - the third *kept* it's rankings but only for the home page. All pages now listed using the site: operator, some rankings back too.

Could these be connected?

(edited for clarity)

[Marcia]

My homepage that was tagged supplemental didn't show up for searches for exact phrases in quotes. I think this use of more than one index might be causing some chaos.