2 meta tag problems

Would this be a reason why 95% of site is supplemental

[kdollar]

I was looking into why my site is almost all supplemental and how a lot of my page rank disappeared last update. I can't believe I did not catch this before but I had a 2 full sets of meta tags on every page. One was the same for every page (which I didn't mean to have)... The other above that had a unique meta tags for that page. Would this be a reason why my site went supplemental and also is removing it enough. Should I do anything else?

[tedster]

Google recently made some big changes in how backlink infuences are weighted. If your link profile is not very diverse (for example, mostly from social media sites, or mostly reciprocals, etc.) that may be what you are suffering from the most.

I don't think that meta tags have any influence on PR at all. PR is defined through linking, and not on-page factors.

I have known duplicate meta descriptions to cause supplemental tags, but what you describe also involves lowered PR - and low PR is a very common reason for being in the supplemental index.

[soapystar]

i have wondered since bd if pr didnt actually looking at things other than links these days. Not on-page factors as such but other criteria such as index pages being rated above non-index pages. Where the page lies within the site structure so to speak. Perhaps you could call it pr plus, that includes some form of internal local rank. Would certainly explain the sub-domain boost as oppose to an identical sub-page.

[glengara]

You don't mention rankings Kdollar, what's happened there?

If not a glitch the loss of PR is a bit of an oddity these days, most discounted linkages still show a healthy PR when in the past they would probably have received a PR0...

[kdollar]

My rankings have actually increased. I got out of the sandbox recently. The pages that are not supplemental are doing pretty well. Also I am a very competitive market and for my main keyword my site ranks from 35-100 depending on the day. Last updated I kept thinking my pr would come back but it never did. I had 301 redirects for some of the pages that lost pr which is understandable. But my blog use to be pr4 and is now pr0 along with some other pages I didn't touch. It has been pretty frustrating.

[glengara]

I'd remove that generic meta set and see what happens before doing anything further...

[kdollar]

Wow, I eliminated the general meta tags and I was just cached by google and the pages that were supplemental are now not. My rankings for the pages also went up significantly...I thought that was going to take longer but google was very responsive to me eliminating the meta tags.

[jimbeetle]

Glad to hear somebody say something worked for a change, kdollar.

Can you tell us what type of metas they were when you referred to them here:

I can't believe I did not catch this before but I had a 2 full sets of meta tags on every page. One was the same for every page (which I didn't mean to have)... The other above that had a unique meta tags for that page.

[kdollar]

Well the set that was duplicated for every page was a description, keywords, Content-Type, robots, text/css. It was actually the meta tags for my homepage...