Freaking Warm Weather

1845 days ago

Hoot! We have a extremely warm weather this entire week. It rains at night, but come morning, it feels like one oven in my room. I have a fan blowing at...

Hoot! We have a extremely warm weather this entire week. It rains at night, but come morning, it feels like one oven in my room. I have a fan blowing at me, but all it blows is warm air. You sweat nearly immediately after you get out of the bath! Going out is like getting baked. All of us rush to air-conditioned shopping malls whenever we get the chance. I guess this is one of the disadvantages living in a tropical country. One of my friends living in Sweden told me I should consider myself lucky to be living in such a climate and not worry about sweaters or thick clothes. And he told me how dangerous driving is when the entire road is frozen and slippery rock. I guess this is also one of the disadvantages of living in a seasonal climate. But at least you guys get different kinds of weathers at different time of the year. Ours is baking weather all year round, except maybe November to December, we get a little breeze and rain.

So please forgive for complaining about the warm weather here in little Singapore. By the way, if you like to get baked, you should visit our country. You can get a fabulous tan here in no time.

Supplemental Index Problem

1846 days ago

I had faced this problem for quite sometime now, and I have come to the conclusion that it is all about links. If your content rich and unique page is linked from...

I had faced this problem for quite sometime now, and I have come to the conclusion that it is all about links. If your content rich and unique page is linked from other sites, then very unlikely that it will go into supplemental index.

Here are some findings:

1. Even completely unique page with content will go into supplemental if your site is not trusted. I don’t know how and what criteria they use, but I have seen it. Supplemental index does not always mean duplicate content.

2. Internal links can help, acts as a backlink, so make good use of it to get out of supplemental. Try linking from your homepage for better results.

3. Pointing good quality links to your mainpage will help gain trust with Google, and thus you will have less pages going into supplemental.

4. Point links (preferly good quality links) to the page that went supplemental. It will go out of supplemental soon.

5. Text rich and unique pages will be less prone to supplemental. Kind of contradictory to the first point, but it is true.

6. Pages in the Supplemental results may be temporarily when Google does some sort of dance or shuffle. It will be out after a while (one or two weeks time?). Some however will be there for a long time if nothing is done about it.

7. Updating your page often can help. Having more text on your page can also help.

8. Sites with a lot of pages will tend to have some of them in supplemental. Perhaps it is due to internal linking problems or that Google doesn’t like too many pages of a same site clouding it’s search results, but this is what I have discovered.

Well, this is what I have. I will update this page if I can anymore information on this supplemental hell thing. Hey, if you have any comments or if you think what I say is wrong, please leave a comment. Thanks.