Casually I was checking the indexed pages of one my sites which had supplemental results. To my surprise I saw all of them removed. I checked other DC's and found only one or two still having the old results with supplemental pages. Do anybody else noticed similar things?
I too have seen the fluctuation. It changes from day to day. One day a very small number of pages indexed and no supplementals. The next day 2300+ pages indexed and nearly all supplemental. Hopefully they are fixing something and the non supplementals will populate to the other DCs
Indeed supplemental results are gone for good. jimkarter - Supplemental results used to be the pages which were in google's secondary index. Google wont crawl these pages fresh and will still show them in result if no result is available in main index. So at times you will get the pages which were crawled like 3 years back in supplemental result.
Oh. so does that mean if I do a search on site:mysite.com then I should not see very old pages. right? If I see them, then that means they are from supplemental results... or there is a better way to check it?
Supplemental results are mentioned as supplimental results. e.g. URL abc,... (I cant post URL) - 29k - Supplemental Result - If you do site:domain name for some of recent expired domain names you wll see lotta supllemental results.
Hi Jim, check out this one.. site:www.creativeit.tv Check out ones which has Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages after the url.. Example is Folder management Creative IT (UK)is a leading London IT Company that specialises in all IT support and Flexible Folder management. www.creativeit.tv/folder_management.htm - 18k - Supplemental Result - Cached - Similar pages
I had over 90 suplemental results from web pages that I no longer wanted and didn't even create (crappy SEO company added doorway pages, bastards!) I got tired of looking at them so I simply created content for all of those emply pages. I put a statement on each one that said: "This page has moved here: and linked to a relevant page for the url in question. Next day, google removed all of those supl. links. They'll come back as indexed pages soon enough but at least I don't have a ton of dead pages for the spiders to crawl. All pages are up and running now. Don't know if this helps, did it on my own thinking it can't hurt and it may help. Mike
Seeing so much fluctuation still, sites are in and out of supplemental. But it seems to have zero effect on traffic. The pages aren't getting any traffic, regardless of whether or not they're in the supplemental. 1200 pages come out for a day or two, then it's back to only 100 pages non-supp. Traffic doesn't seem to change. Oh well, these recent G changes have caused me to refocus my efforts on 100% white hat stuff: building mega high-quality content and grade A link-bait.