Comments from Mike Liebner about unique content…
Mike had some interesting things to say about Google’s Supplementary Index in an email he sent out recently, and how it relates to Private Label Rights articles…
“As an Article Underground member I have long supplied you with tips and suggestions on how to make your article pages more unique. In most cases, simply adding an introduction, middle commentary and closing summary are enough to make a web page unique enough NOT to trigger any filters. The problem often is NOT the article content but rather the “bolierplate repetition” of blocks of text on many pages, often because of templates.”
Hmmm, I’m not sure I agree with that. I think Google probably ignores most of the HTML template code. My guess is that Google strips the HTML coding and looks at the content on each page. If that content is mainly the same as content from other pages, Google will only keep the Most Relevant Result in its index and shunt the other pages into the supplemental results. So, if I’m right, it IS the content of the page that’s the decisive factor.
Mike goes on to say…
“The key is to avoid blocks of text that are repeated too often. So, spend a few minutes on each article adding sentences and changing a few words.”
So now we’re agreeing that the articles are the problem? I’m confused. 
Actually, I think what Mike is saying is that the templates may be the main problem if you don’t remove “giveaway” signs such as “put your Adsense code here” and “put your links here” which, if left unchanged, will appear on all of your pages as “footprints”. Then, the actual articles may be a secondary concern and you should personalize them to avoid the Supplementary Results tag.
What do you think? Are your sites in the Supplementary Results Index? Are they still getting traffic, as Mike claims his pages are? (and I know some of mine are too!)
January 11th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Hi Neil,
One of my sites wowgold-wowgold.com pages are almost all in Google’s supplementary index, though I figured this was because of the first few blocks of text per page are the same, and thus the same in the supp index. Though my site has a decent amount of traffic from Google and growing everyday! It’s still a new site, page rank 3 with 1000-1500 unique visits a day, only a month ago it was 600-1000 unique visits a day.
My content is mostly original and this is what Google is really looking at. I don’t think it matters if you site is in supplemental results or not, your content is all that matters.
January 11th, 2007 at 1:20 am
Not to spam but at the bottom of wowgold-wowgold.com site there is a site meter link showing its stats, to prove having your pages in supplemental index doesn’t mean anything then you have a few blocks of text that repeat… if it’s not your main content you’re okay.
My template is what causes me to be in Google’s supplemental index, my unique content and page rank keep me in Google’s index for visitors to find me.
I’ve actually tried to change the way my template works to fix the problem, nothing so far.. I need my links on every page and google doesn’t like that.. oh well, nothing major.
January 11th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Interesting comments…thanks. So you see no problem at all with having a supplemental tag for your pages?
January 12th, 2007 at 12:14 am
At this time, no not really… though I’m trying to get my pages out of it, it’s no big deal because my traffic for this site is growing each day. If I were to take all the text out of my template and just have the original content by it’s self per page it would solve the problem… but since I need some sort of navigation, I’ll wait until Google finds out what the difference between my template is and my content. Either way Google sees my good content, and indexes that to be seen by the masses…
If I were to move my left links to the right, that in it self could solve the problem… I might try that…
And one last thing, searching for my pages in Google shows that they are not supplemental… only while doing the site: command 95% of the pages are listed supplemental.. odd?
So I think Google still sees the meat of my pages and are listing them accordingly.. As long as your content is original (or somewhat original where your page rank kills the competition) and you have something of value worth reading Google will index and rank your pages with the best of them.
As for Article Underground, I’m actually a member there as well, and for months I find that the only true value and what’s keeping me there are their forums and PR Blogs, not to disclaim mike, but using his articles won’t help you if you start them on a fresh website with no page rank.
The only way to get those pages ranking is if you can beat the competition with your page rank, because everything else will be the same… no?
Sorry I type too much
Donny,
January 12th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Hi Donny,
>The only way to get those pages ranking is if you can beat the competition with your page rank, because everything else will be the same… no?< Yes, if you don’t rewrite at all. At least, that’s my understanding of it.
Neil.
January 28th, 2007 at 12:27 am
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