Entries from May 2007 ↓

Truth about Google’s Supplemental Index

If you run an online website or business you have probably already heard about Google’s Supplemental Index. You may have even heard it being referred to as Google’s Gulag, Google’s Digital Dungeon, or the moniker that seems to have stuck: Google Hell.
Hate it or love it, webmasters are passionate about the big G. There’s no argument on that point for one good reason: Google simply delivers the most search engine traffíc on the web. For any webmaster with at least a few white SEO connected brain cells Google can supply 60% or more of their traffic.

Therefore, suddenly getting the majority of your pages thrown into Google’s Supplemental Index can result in a correlating drop in business. A few examples of this were reported in a recent Forbes article by Andy Greenberg entitled “Condemned To Google Hell“.

It recounts how two online jewelry businesses lost traffíc and salës by having their pages falling into Google’s Supplemental Index. They speculated on what had caused this to happen: duplicate content? buying links?

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Top 3 Link Popularity Tools

The following free Link Popularity Tools are the best available in the internet. The first two are the best of the three listed. All of this are exe programs you can install in your own pc or laptop.
1. Indexa 2.0 (115 KB) is a java website popularity program that reports Google Pagerank, the number of backlinks recorded on Google, Yahoo, MSN, Altavista and AlltheWeb and the number of pages indexed. Limitations: Analyses 4 urls and 2 search engines. For Windows 98/ME/XP/2000/2003/Unix/Linux/MacOS X.

2. Link Popularity Chëck 3.0.3 (941 KB) checks how many sites link to yours and your competitors in 5 major search engines. For Windows XP/Me/NT4/2000/98/95.

3. BackLinks Master 1.5 (1.3 MB) helps you find who is linking to you, whether links are direct and what keywords are in the anchor text. For Windows 98/ME/XP/2000.

If you don’t know what Link Popularity is click here, to wikipedia.