As the title suggests, I checked a couple days ago and 99% of my almost 4 thousand indexed pages were in the supplemental bin. Now I just checked again and I couldn't find ANY supplemental results. I haven't done a darn thing to my site from an SEO point of view so what's the deal? Is it just a glitch and I'll find the site back in the supplemental bin again tomorrow?
Google's results seem to have been going crazy for the last few weeks. People are saying its due to a PR update thats supposedly in progress.
I had a post here that got moved to oblivion for some odd reason, but I have noticed huge changes back and forth for the last 2 weeks. Hits goes from 1,500 a day to 5,000 unique a day. Pages in supplemental and then they are not. I also posted about results I have seen using the site: command and when I did a search using site:domain.com -www I saw supplemental pages and it did not use the -www there were no supplemental.... so what does the -www do?
many my non-supplemental pages were turned into supplemental...but things are changing fast, now most of them are non-supplemental again.. Google is doing sth, I feel PR update is coming...
Nah...nothing connected with pr update. The definition of supplemental is way different than what most think. Seems, most pages with little or no backlinks to them are first indexed at put to supplemental at once, like a makeshift index. Google's crawlers then reindex them again...discard the ones not available or other errors. Finally, after a few weeks, the different filtering and ranking algos work on the supplemental pages stored and good ones are put into the main index. Similarly, 404 and pages with other errors are first put into supplemental and may get discarded afterwards.
So does that mean any pages just pulled out of the supplemental bin should stay that way as long as we don't do anything at the pages to screw them up?