ways to avoid supplemental results

[marigot]

It seems there is being a lot asked lately about supplemental results. Everywhere I go, people are wondering how to get out of the supplemental results from google.

Two of the more common things that have happened to me are the duplicate content issue which put several of my pages in the supplemental results and the other one was incorrect meta tags.

In the first instance, I had used a couple articles from article directories. Because other people had used the same articles and they had been indexed elsewhere, my pages were considered duplicate content. The articles were really good and I knew they were of benefit to my users so I wanted to keep them. To get the pages out of the SR, I added a 3 paragraph summary at the beginning of the article. Then at the end, I added a review saying why the article was valid. This gave me fresh content and the page was removed from the SR.

The other instance is where I launched a site figuring I would do the meta tags in a couple days when I had time. DUMB IDEA

My site got indexed and all 643 pages had the same meta tags. Again, they ended up in the supplemental results. So I sat all day one day and changed every title and description tag and eventually got the pages out of the SR.

[christy]

I see alot of people debating this supplemental results concept. It seems to be divided.

I have read that duplicate content has nothing to with it. Those people that say that are saying that the only thing that directs SR is the number of backlinks.

Then I see many people like the post above indicating it is duplicate content. I am not sure anymore myself.........LOL

But I do know this, I have about 20 websites that have NO backlinks whatsoever and they are not found in the SR.

And, I,too, like the poster above have mistakenly left the same tags and descriptions on pages and when I fixed the problem, the pages came out of SR.

So I don;t know who to believe anymore.