Actually, that one is completely false, I don't care what Google says about it. If a page is only showing as a supplemental result when the snapshot is taken, then it will be PR0 (at least as far as PR reporting goes) next update. The reason that Matt's page has PR is that it was non supp only last PR update, and the PR only gets updated every so often. I've had sites that were completely (and unjustly, just to be clear) banned, and they retain their PR until the next update as well. -Michael
Ok, thanks for all the insight... here is a theoretical example. a page that is correctly in the supplemental index (its duplicate content) will lose its pr in the next update, and its link juice power is limited? Is this correct?
Ya know, reading that again, perhaps I didn't know what "it" was (that sounds Clintonian) Perhaps the ITS here is the site which is the only noun in the sentence before it, I incorrectly assumed ITS was refereing to a page which normally gets pagerank, perhaps they meant. Meaning, if you've got some pages in the supplemental index, your main site page (or other pages for that matter) aren't negatively reduced in pagerank. I feel all lawyerly and clintonion now, I need to shower.
Ok, gotcha, I still disagree but to a lesser extent. I did in fact interpret it as them saying that the individual page would still get PageRank, mostly because that is how it works... PageRank is assigned to pages, not sites, coupled with the fact that I have a built in bullshit detector that goes off whenever someone from Google uses the phrase "please be assured". They use it way too much, especially in their customer service emails, as if they are invoking a hypnosis spell. However, I still say they are wrong and/or being misleading about it. At the very least they are not looking at the big picture when they make that claim. If a page has some external links pointing to it, and it in turn points back to the homepage (as most pages on a given site would do), if that page goes supplemental, then whatever PageRank that page would normally have is now not taken into account on what feeds the homepage (and the rest of the site, for that matter). So, while technically speaking there may be no direct correlation between a site having supplemental pages, and that site's homepage PageRank that it gets from other links, if you multiply the supp pages by 10's of thousands of supps that potentially otherwise feed PR back into the homepage, then yeah, it can matter. Heh! -Michael