The official Google Webmaster Central Blog has a new post titled:
The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results
which as usual started a thread on WMW here.
According to the post:
From a user perspective, this means that you’ll be seeing more relevant documents and a much deeper slice of the web, especially for non-English queries. For webmasters, this means that good-quality pages that were less visible in our index are more likely to come up for queries.
Hmmm…i checked a website of mine which had geo-city & intra city pages & [for ‘More results from …], i was able to see lot many more pages which were not visible earlier. So, yes, Google is showing up more pages from a website, which were not displayed earlier, & this is without - “repeat the search with the omitted results included”.
So, good for website owners & better for Google as more adwords inventory to be unlocked.
Will report on this again, say in a month or 2 to check/repo
Google’s Supplemental Cache is an area where it dumps pages which it thinks as duplicates. This can hamper your page listing in Google quite significantly if you don’t take care of it.
If you’re running a blog, you just won’t realize that each post that you write can be classified as a duplicate. How you ask? Just think of the numerous ways in which the same post can be accessed from your blog:
You can access it directly from its page where you posted it
You can access it via the RSS/Atom Feed for your blog
You can access it via the Archives
You can access it via the Category pages
Now, how can you convince Google that all of them are actually pointing to just one source rather than being classified as a “duplicate page”?
As part of improving SEO for this blog, I noticed that mid-last month I had over 100 pages from the BlogSailor network dumped into Google’s Supplemental Cache. After doing a bit of searching around, I read a very well writt
I was reviewing my blogs google stats recently when I found that 75 pages of my blog are listed in the supplemental results, not the main google index. My first thought was that maybe blogcfc didn't have propper settings for indexing and following links. A quick look at the code proved that wrong. Blogcfc works just fine (thanks Ray!). The typical reasons for being in the supplemental results don't seem to apply.
Pages such as my vanguard review or database metadata for example are supplemental, though have good content (well, not junk content). I have unique titles and keywords. I have unique content. I don't see anywhere in my blog that my content is duplicated accidentally (category views, etc) that are indexed in any way.
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Nathan Metzger of Not So Boring Life has a very interesting article that I found through Chow’s site about getting your blog out of the google supplement index. According to Nathan back in April Chris Garett did a great article on supplemental index problems that he was having on his Wordpress blog.
Supposedly the Google supplement Index is where the undeserving pages go in the end. The first step in taking care of this problem is downloading the Firefox browser if you do not have it and then downloading the SEO for Firefox plugin.
What is the Supplemental Index?
Lots of SEO masters believe that content that isn’t worthy ends up in the supplemental index. While this is certainly true, if you’re running a wordpress blog it is more likely that you’re simply dealing with duplicate content issues. If you make a post today on a default wordpress setup, there are about 5 different URLs you could type in that would give you the exact same content.
After downloading th
Google’s search results are now set up in a two-tier system. You have the main, or regular search results, and the supplemental results. Supplemental results will generally show up at the very end of keyword search results. The odds that your ’supplemental’ page will be available to someone performing a search isn’t [...]
