Google Supplemental Results go mainstream

Google Supplemental Results Labels trashMany Blog owners and webmasters have been continuously upset about their new website and pages ending up in the Supplemental Index. Nothing to worry about now, as Google has removed the ’supplemental result’ labels from the search results.

Google originally introduced Supplemental Results in 2003 so they could separate unimportant pages, and pages with duplicate content from their main index. The Supplemental Results were displayed as a result to queries made by searchers if no substantial results could be fetched from the main index. The whole idea was to make the search results more relevant and not to show old pages with little or no content in the Search Results. Learn more about Google Supplemental Results at ABCSEO.

Now, Google has extensively changed the way pages are indexed and added to the main index, which is why they are making the supplemental results go mainstream. Many blog owners, webmasters and website owners have given positive feedback about Google doing this, as they can put their efforts on new things and stop worrying about the Supplemental Index Results. Other searchers have shown their criticism as they will have to visit the Supplemental Pages when doing a search which might affect the quality of the Search Results displayed.

Check the official Google Blog where they announced this, and also the article at Search Engine Journal.

5 Comments »

  1. car news guy said,

    August 3, 2007 @ 1:11 am

    Does this mean we don’t need to worry about the supplemental results issue?

  2. Nomar said,

    August 3, 2007 @ 2:51 am

    Great info !! Didn’t know that yet :)

  3. admin said,

    August 3, 2007 @ 10:48 am

    @car news guy, all the results will be displayed as the same on the Google SERPs. The labels for Supplemental Result will not be visible anymore.

  4. Billy said,

    August 7, 2007 @ 1:35 am

    But the results suck now that they have limited it to 1000 only, even if larger site have pages over 10k-30k volume. Some of my bigger clients are losing out because of this.

  5. SEO Reloaded » Driving traffic to your Affiliate site said,

    September 8, 2007 @ 11:17 am

    […] Your Title Tags, Meta Tags and content is not unique, so most of your pages might end up in Google Supplemental Index (Supplemental Pages) […]

RSS feed for comments on this post · TrackBack URI

Leave a Comment