I’m learning a lot about the supplementary index in Google and how to study it.
First, use the mapelli tool to get a sense of how many of your pages are langushing in the neverland of the supplementary index.
Here’s the next unanswered question. Any methodfor sorting thru the google results to find the 193 pages that aren’t in the main index?
Here are two possibilities….
1. I take the total listing and copy them into a document. But, since Google returns results 10 at a time, I will have to do this 56 times. Then, I’ll take the main listing results and one by one, remove them from my list until I find the 193 that are left.
2. The webmaster tool can be used to find the pages that have zero internal or external links. While these pages might actually have links, this is google’s way of communicating that these pages have been put into the supplementary index.
Once I know which pages are in the index, I imagine I’ll see why they are in the index. They might be:
- duplicate or nearly duplicate pages
- pages with no link support
- pages with no text content (all graphics or flash)
