[hbnathan]

I have been noticing these days that Google is indexing pages on our website that were cached by Google in May 2006 . These pages have been many times updated since then, but Google keeps ignoring the updated pages, as well as many new pages recently posted on my website and indexing the old versions

Yahoo was doing the same but they recently corrected most of the problem, after I resubmitted the site.

I can't figure out what's going on with Google.






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[HHI Golf Guy]

Google has thrown the majority of your pages in the "Supplemental results" trash heap. That means there are reasons they do not like your pages and feel they are not worthy of indexing. It also means that Googlebot activity will most likely slow down on your site.

You need to look at the pages that are supplemental, decide why Google doesn't like them, make corrections, then ask Google to take a look at your site again.(Looking at your supplemental pages it's easy to see what is going on.)

[Tony Sena]

I have noticed that I have had in the past supplemental pages showing in my index, but they were mostly from the forum I had on my site. Can you explain why supplemental pages are bad.

[HHI Golf Guy]

Originally Posted by Tony Sena

I have noticed that I have had in the past supplemental pages showing in my index, but they were mostly from the forum I had on my site. Can you explain why supplemental pages are bad.

When pages start going supplemental it means there is something about them that Google does not like. A supplemental designation means that the page was once in G's index, but has since been removed. Google "knows" about the page, but it is not scored in the ranking algorithms.

Why do pages go supplemental? There are a lot of theories. Pages that I have seen go supplemental are link exchange pages, pages with (mostly) duplicate content, scraper site pages, made for Adsense type pages, affiliate pages, and pages with very little content.

In my own experience, a site with too many supplemental pages can lose all or most of its top rankings. Once the supplemental page issue has been corrected, the rankings will come back.

[raubin]

I have seen the same results when there have been changes to googles algo and results updates.

It was showing the cache of 2 or 3 years ago when we didn't even own the site !

[HHI Golf Guy]

Originally Posted by raubin

I have seen the same results when there have been changes to googles algo and results updates.

It was showing the cache of 2 or 3 years ago when we didn't even own the site !

There are a few reasons this might happen. The first (and most likely) is that Google brought DC's back online that have been out of service for a while. Until the new data is pushed to these DC's you will see strange SERP's and cache pages.

The second is that Google may have rolled back data for one reason or another, perhaps for testing. However, I don't think this is the case.

Google constantly rolls DC's in and out of service for maintenenace. Maybe they pulled out a few that had been gathering dust for a while.