How To Check All Google Supplemental Index Results For Your Site

You can check all the supplemental results by typing the following command into Google search box.

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Are Supplemental Results Important?

Google put pages into supplemental index because they are trusted less. The Google bots crawl those pages less frequently and the result is lower ranking for these pages comparing to the pages that are not in supplemental index.

You can find ou a lot about the structure of the site, health of the site, by comparing all the indexed pages to supplemental pages. The percentage that you get can tell you a lot about the popularity of the site, importance of the site, link issues, architecture issues etc.

How To Calculate Your Supplemental Index Ratio?

You can get the result by divide the number of supplemental results by your total results count

What Does My Supplemental Ratio Mean?

The indexed ratio is constantly changing due to new algorithms Google is using for indexing and crawling the site, but you can still get an overall impression of your site health.

If there are none of your pages in supplemental results, your site has good site and link architecture. If some of your pages are in the supplemental index that is still not an issue as long those pages are of lower importance.

If many of your important pages are in supplemental index, you should probably check your site architecture, inbound links, internal linking, duplicate content…

When fixing the supplemental index issue you could compare your supplemental ratio with other similar sites in your industry and try to mimic the better sites. That could give you a lot of information how to lower the supplemental ratio.

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