Oh no, looks like Google is going to deal me another painful blow. Yes, it is not enough that they are sending my webpages into supplemental, they are now throwing my pages out of their index altogether! I had my Singapore Business Directory about 3000 pages indexed before, but now, it has dropped to about 1400 pages (plus supplementals as well). It is no wonder my traffic from Google is dropping steadily.

Is it because I did some changes to my directory? I had added a few more internal links to each of the listing’s directory page. But somehow I don’t think it is the cause. My other directories didn’t have their webpages thrown out of the index and they have the same additional links. Can anyone enlighten me, I am really in the dark here. Does having more outgoing links result in some penalty by Google? That’s stupid right? This isn’t really some serious breach of some ethical code. I mean Google is basing their entire algorithms on links. It doesn’t make sense to devalue a site because of internal links. In fact, it would help in navigation which is something Google encourages all webmasters to do - making the site human user friendly.

I think the worst thing about dealing with Google is you can never understand what is happening. I am not the only one, I believe a lot of webmasters are also confused about why their pages are in supplemental too. And why Google remove some pages from their index. The funniest thing, Google doesn’t even tell you why. At most they give you a little vague and virtual useless answer about this or that little excuse.

For my business directory site’s Chateau de Chillon articles! Remember just a few days ago I was gloating about my business directory article is ranking very well in Google (page 2 in fact)? Google must have heard me and now they dropped my article to page 5! They don’t like gloating little boys I believe. Check it out here. Geee…thanks Google. That’s very thoughtful of you.

Why did they do it? I don’t know. I didn’t do any changes to the page nor did I do any blackhat thingy. There are some decent links to it too. The content is unique and well written by Scolls of WebWobot. I didn’t find any duplicate text or content either. In fact, all I did was to blog about my achievement. Sure I added some links, but these links are related and are not paid links. Anyway, it looks like at the time of writing, Google still had not index that blog post yet, so I am still confused as ever. Maybe it is a temporary thing? I hope so, I need my ranking back to get tons of traffic to my site.

Anyway, it goes up and down and now, it has stayed all the way down into their supplemental index. From page 5 to Supplemental in just a space of a few weeks. Pretty good achievement I guess. I think perhaps I do not have enough text in those articles and maybe too many links? However, most of the links are internal. Just wondering whether too many internal links will affect my page’s rankings.

How about this, I will stop making fun of Google if they don’t hurt me in rankings? Please, pretty please? Truce?

“Chateau de Chillon”! Woohoo! Check out the search result here. That’s great considering that this term is pretty competitive and the Castle itself is a very popular tourist destination. The winner is Scoll’s articles on that castle. Three cheers for Scolls! If you still hadn’t read the article, you should. The articles are Chateau de Chillon Part 1, Chateau de Chillon Part 2 and Chateau de Chillon Part 3. We are now awaiting his new travel articles, coming out real soon.

If you taken any pictures of this castle before and you are willing to share it with our readers please send the pictures to me at admin (AT) efwsg.org. Please ensure that the photos are yours. I will post it up on my business directory and give you credit. Remember to send me the URL of your website. I can accept only a few photos though, maybe like 5 photos max for each of the articles.

Better still, send me a couple of thousand bucks (or British Pounds) and I will go and take the photos myself! I would love to travel to beautiful Switzerland and spend other people’s money.

Following my previous blog post about my obsession with my websites (especially my directories) going into supplemental index, I have writen a little article on it. This follows a little research done by yours truly and hopefully it can be useful to you guys. However, please take note that this little study is not exhaustive and may have gaps or assumptions, so becareful while following these tips. I have used Alive Directory as a case study. And it seems that Aviva Directory suffers less from the supplemental index problem than Alive.  I wonder why is this so? From what I can see, Alive’s site navigation (and linkage) is slightly better from Aviva’s.

In the next few weeks, I hope to see less of my webpages in supplemental and more actually ranking for something on Google after I added more internal links between my directories’ detail pages. So every detail page is linked to 5 others in order to improve page visibility.  I have seen a lot of good pages with content not ranking very well, hope this will improve too. For god’s sake, O’ Scary and Feared One, release me from this hellhole!

Please read: Understanding and Preventing Supplemental Pages

Yes, call me that. Why? Well, I am currently obsessed with getting my sites (2 directories) pages out of supplemental index. A lot of my directories pages went into supplemental, like about 80%. Even my business directory had about 60% supplemental. And now I am spending all of my time surfing the net and looking for answers to solve my problem. I have been browsing through webmaster forums, SEO forums and god knows what forum looking for expert advise. And it seems that backlinks are the only solution. But how am I going to get that much backlinks to so many categories? Hmm….this is a tough one. And who in their right mind would want to link back to a general web directory’s category?

Some say good content can do the trick. But in all seriousness, adding content to listing or detail pages is not a practical solution. My directory has over 3000 over listings, and you are going to need months to get quality content into them detail pages! And it may not even work, especially since they are already in supplemental index. Looks like backlinks are still the only real solution for me. I welcome any other advice to help me on this problem. And BALLS to Google for this ridiculous index.

From what I have learned, I will be using it to write an article on supplemental results in a few days time, so watch out for it. Damn, I really need to get rid of this obsession.

And finally, Happy Mother’s Day! Did you kids bring your mom out for dinner and for once paid for it? Yes, out of your own pocket. You should. And please be generous, they did give birth to you and I am sure they did something right. You came to this blog, didn’t you?

So if you have a brand new website and you want to get it listed in Google or Yahoo, you can try this tip by an expert.

I have taken this brilliant idea from the article:

“To get your web pages quickly indexed or listed into Google and Yahoo, enter the index page URL of your site into the Google Search box. Next, click the Search Web button next to it, and Google will begin searching for your URL.This action will instantly call the Google Spiders to come search your web pages and immediately your site will get listed into Google… that’s it!”

Now you have it. The ultimate secret to get listed faster than having tons of expensive links pointing to your site. And it’s so simple as well. Why didn’t I think of that. Maybe if I keep on searching for my URL (like a million times per day), I will improve in rankings and search result positions as well! And I may be setting up an SEO firm which creates an automated software to do searches for URLs to improve rankings! Wow, this is definitely a goldmine for anyone quick enough to cash on it. And you get to laugh at those dumb webmasters spending hours and hours (and spending a truckload of cash) trying to get backlinks.

I am just wondering will this work with Yahoo? The article says it will. But he didn’t say he tested it. So this could be a grey area. But one Search Engine is enough for me if I can stop laughing for just a second.

It seems that Google loves me so much, that they have 2 exact index of my page! Take a look below.

You see, I didn’t buy links because I am too poor, so Google rewards me. Hahaha, take that you arrogant and rich link buyers! I have outsmarted you guys again. And no, I didn’t photoshop this ok? All of you, take note of this, if you want to be loved by Google, you will have to follow what they say. They don’t like people who stray from the true path and their engineers will come and rain death and destruction on your websites. And if you would like to pay for links, why not just pay to Google directly? They have this thing called “Adwords“. Paying them is good as with more money and power they will rain more death, disease and destruction to unbelievers and greedy link sellers. These people will pay for their sins. And once they cleared out these people, the Internet will be pure and full of obedient people who would use only Google Phone. Isn’t it just heavenly?

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.

We all know that backlinks are important right? I meant for Google SEO, it is practically life and death. Almost everything depends on backlinks and anchor text. You get PageRank and improved rankings from them and thus these are highly sought-after by webmasters. There is even a huge market for the purchase and sale of links on the Internet due to this. Well, here are some unauthodox and sometimes “ingenius” ways to get links. Please note  that I am not encouraging you to use these methods to get backlinks. In fact, this article’s main objective to tell you guys how these people attempt to get links and what you should be looking out to stop these spammers. But it is pretty interesting to see what lengths these people go to in order to get links. Also to note, these could backfire, getting you banned in forums and even your site reported to Google for spamming! So don’t try these at home, boys! It’s more for the foolhardy.

Sneaky Bastard’s Way of Getting Backlinks. Hope you will enjoy it. I wonder how many of you have actually used these kind of “techniques” before in order to get links? And how effective was it, you sneaky one, you.

And you know what, yesterday, we got spammed! Someone posted a spam comment on this blog. I wonder how he/she got to know our blog? And don’t they know that all comments have the “nofollow” tag for their URLs? This type of spamming won’t work as it is useless. And I am sure people won’t click on it. But it was a good try. It also means that we are getting popular! Hahaha……..

Looks like it is getting tougher and tougher to get sites into the authority sites directory. And it’s getting harder to find good sites and get good descriptions for them as well. I have done only 54 new sites since the last time and it’s seemed to me that it is going slow.

Or maybe it is just because I am getting lazy? Hmmmm……perhaps what I need is a good kick on the behind to get me really started? Anyways, remember last time I promised to hit 400 sites by the end of the month? Not going to happen. Sorry. If you guys know of any “authority sites” that are not listed on the directory, please let me know so that I can include them.

I was wondering whether getting the “authority sites” status requires you to get listed in DMOZ in the first place? I read in some forums claiming that the main criteria is getting into DMOZ and in time, Google will give you those extra organic URLs. Could this be true? I really hope not, because none of my sites are listed in DMOZ and it looks like getting into DMOZ is more difficult now. Worse still, there are reports of greedy and corrupt editors spoliting it for everyone. Bitches.