We’ve added a new tool to our site - SiteMost’s Supplemental Results Tool!
So what is a Supplemental Result???
If Google discovers some issues within your site - such as duplicated content, a substantial drop in your inbound-links, lots of new pages have been added to your site quickly etc. it will place those pages into its supplemental results index. Usually pages tagged as supplemental only show up in the search index after the normal results and they are not crawled as often meaning changes to those pages may take longer to be noticed by Google.
Up until recently, Google allowed you to easily view your supplemental results by using the following command: site:yoursite.com *** -asdf, but a couple of weeks ago Google took away this feature causing a stir in the SEO industry. It didn’t remove it completely, and the supplemental results would still be displayed amongst the main results when you did a search using: site:yoursite.com, although it made it a lot harder to easily identify which of your pages may need to be fixed.
So to make it easy for webmasters and SEO’s to identify possible issues within theirs or their client’s sites, we’ve setup a new tool that effectively does what Google used to let everyone do - easily view your supplemental results with SiteMost’s Supplemental Results Tool.
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It doesn’t appear to be working as intended when I ran it using the example sitemost.com.au you mention on the tool itself.
The topmost result it returns is not actually supplemental, the blog homepage:
blog.sitemost.com.au
And when I compare it to running it against actual Google results by hand, it missed 4 of the pages:
blog.sitemost.com.au/wp-content/themes/sitemost2/ - 1k - Supplemental Result
blog.sitemost.com.au/2007/06/08/where-to-begin/ - 14k - Supplemental Result
blog.sitemost.com.au/2007/07/14/accc-dont-like-googles-ppc/ - 13k - Supplemental Result
blog.sitemost.com.au/2007/07/11/new-sitemost-website/ - 12k - Supplemental Result
Might want to look into where the discrepancy is coming from.
Thanks Michael
Google uses a lot of different data centres and not all the data centres update at the same time - the data centre our tool is using may be different to the data centre used when you performed your check.
I’ll do some further testing to ensure there are no other issues just in case and thanks again for letting us know.
Nice tool
Did you see that matt cutts currently has a poll going for which features we’d like to add into the next version of webmaster central? One of the items is a supplemental reports. We can but dream!
In the meantime, I’ll be using this - good work
T
Cool. I notice lots of my Supplementals rank, though. So I’m not as worried about them as I once was.
Thanks for adding the Total Pages Count as well. This is a most useful tool. I hope it lasts for some time to come, or at least until similar information is available from Google Webmaster Central.
Thanks! The tools works nicely. I have linked to it and stumbled it.