Google removes supplemental results from SERPs
 

Just recently Google has announced at its official webmaster central blog that they are going to stop tagging some search results as "supplemental".

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...ainstream.html

From the comments on the original post looks like it's more to the bad than to the good though...

Wow, the thread is sinking fast.
Bump for the business matter.
Just checked one of my sites and all my supplemental results gone mainstream

You're wrong with the title. They are no longer MARKING THEM AS SUPPLEMENTAL - not removing them from the results.

Whatever...
Nobody cares anyway :)

Yeah, if anything, if read correctly, it says that Google is confident enough of botting all of the pages that they no longer have to mark something as supplemental because they have the ability to check them in a reasonable amount of time.

So in the end, it isn't a bad thing, but a decent thing.

Bump for more discussion.

I can see arguments for and against the move, but if the above quote from the article is true then I see it overall as a positive. For a few of my sites that are heavily in the Supps I have a chance to get visits on otherwise very rare terms where I'm buried.

Hell of a misleading thread title.

I could be a good thing, although I doubt they'll give pages they marked as unimportant (=supplemental) more importance now...It could just be a dirty trick to move even more results to supplemental (or a "dead part" of the index when it comes to ranking) silently and noone will complain or recognize it.

fucking eh.....

interesting indeed

thanks for the heads up :thumbsup

What is a supplemental result anyway?

my thoughts exactly. this will just make it harder to gauge your strategies.

so don't be happy kevsh your supp'd pages won't suddenly fly up the serps :upsidedow

The only recent change has been to remove the tag that *shows* that a page is supplemental.

I've been tracking the supplemental pages on one of my blogs *very* closely for a few days to monitor the effect of some navigation changes. The pages that were supplemental are still supplemental -- which is to say, they only appear in searches for site:url, they appear immediately after all the pages that didn't used to be supplemental, and they still don't show up even when you do a targeted search for phrases from those pages.

So, sorry to say it, but Google is lying. They've eliminated the ability to easily see which pages are supplemental, but they haven't changed the functionality of those pages lately.

They may indeed change them later, that's always possible. But today, we still have as many supplemental pages as we had yesterday, Google is just playing hide-the-ball like they did when they stopped updating PageRank in a timely fashion.

bump for this question

I liked being able to see which results were in supplemental since you could easily identify the pages that needed more link love.

duplicate content would fall into supplemental

original content does not.

a bump for the worth, generally

thread title is false, at the very least misleading.

actually when you do site:domain.com they no longer appear as far as i can tell. well they do and they dont..

when you search site:domain.com it will show 1-100 of XXXX pages

lets say x is 3333 , if you are search 100 results per page and go to the last page of results ( should be 900-1000 ) you will notice a different number.

for example on one of my domains it shows about 2k pages for site:domain.com but when i scroll to the bottom it only shows up to page #3 , when i go to page 3 it says 332 of 332 at the top instead of 332 of 2000

last week it was showing the full amount of pages but the last 700 were listed as supplemental.

so it showed the full 1000 , now those supplemental pages are gone ( kinda )

Not really. Just means that with popular keywords instead of showing up as a supplemental result, you probably won't show up at all.

this sounds like good news to me.

Tech question for you all...
 

My site is: www.PrismVoD.com however I'm indexing xml and have moved my index.xml to a different directory with my .htaccess pointing to http://www.prismvod.com/lesbian-vod/index.xml ... Is this an example of a supplemental index ?

Google likes rss and atom feeds but does not seem to like straight xml ... does anyone have any comments regarding this issue...

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actually that is wrong. It is more to do with links, domain authority, and link juice pointing at a page. You can get duplicate content to rank very well if you have a domain of authority. Contary to popular belief what your suggesting is old news and hasnt been relevant for over a year. It pays to be clued up.

what he said..

dupe content is a myth created by white hats to (try) to protect their beloved content :upsidedow