My site is in the index AND in supplemental

[johnnie]

I'm in supplemental hell. When I search for my domain name, I can find my site's homepage on top of the regular listings. However, when I look into the supplemental listings, I find my complete site tree (including the homepage) there. So now my homepage is listed in both regular and supplemental results... The rest has been supplemental-ized.

What does that mean for the homepage? And how do I get out?

[tedster]

Having certainty about Supplemental URLs is not so easy as it once was. I'd suggest using AOL Search, where the data is supplied by Google, but apparently with no supplemental results. Do a site: operator search over there, and if your home page shows up, then it is in the regular Google index.

Also sometimes a url ends up in the supplemental index but with a historical cache date - nothing to worry about, there, as long as the most current version is still in the regular index.

[johnnie]

In AOL only two pages (main page and a sub page) are returned. Guess most of my site is in supplemental hell. How to get out? My site has original content!

[tedster]

The supplemental index certainly holds original content.Now you want Google's algo to recognize that.

1. Attract a strong backlink profile. That also builds PageRank.
2. Make sure that your titles and meta descriptions for each page are unique and specific to the page's content.

[apauto]

In AOL only two pages (main page and a sub page) are returned. Guess most of my site is in supplemental hell. How to get out? My site has original content!

I tried the AOL search, and found that for one of my sites, Google has 142 pages indexed, and in AOL, it only shows 9.

On another site, Google shows 8000 pages indexed, and AOL only shows 50.

I don't think the AOL site is very accurate.

[CainIV]

Nice one Tedster, I was previously using various operators to dredge the info from Google

After matching the AOL results with the dredged Google results,both were within 1 to 2 pages of being the same count.

[tedster]

It's true that AOL Search has a slightly smaller index than even the Google regular index, at least as reported by the /* hack. But it's getting harder to pull information out of the site: operator search on Google, and you can bet that the data Google exports to AOL represents the pages that they REALLY value.

I just checked a couple sites that I know well, and AOL's site: operator results are about 1% to 5% off compared to Google's site:example.com/* numbers - not too far different, in other words.