Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'supplemental results'

A month and a half ago, we polled our audience, trying to gauge how concerned SEOs are with Google's 'hidden' supplemental index. The results are now in, we have 80 responses and I wanted to share them with you. Here...

Posted on March 4, 2009 8:48 AM

August 1st of 2007, Google dropped the supplemental tag from their search results. The main reason why they did this was because their supplemental index was fresher and deeper then it was when it first launched in 2003, plus, in...

Posted on January 15, 2009 8:08 AM

Michael Gray has composed a post that helps SEOs find out which pages of their site haven't been crawled, which becomes increasingly more important due to Google's removal of the supplemental index. He explains that you should put a timestamp...

Posted on September 11, 2008 9:23 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread has some interesting conversation about an increase in long tail traffic people have been noticing from Google. Long tail traffic, if you don't know, are the longer more specific keyword searches, such as big blue pineapple chair...

Posted on January 8, 2008 7:30 AM

Last night, Google announced that they have done away with the "supplemental results" label from the search results within Google.com. What this means is that Google will no longer label results with a "Supplemental Results" tag in the search results....

Posted on August 1, 2007 7:05 AM

The other day, I reported that Google Drops Supplemental Results Query Command. I suspected that Google will drop the supplemental results command and possibly the supplemental results label forever. I still feel this will happen but a new way to...

Posted on July 30, 2007 7:32 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that Google has dropped a search command that used to show a site's pages that were included in the supplemental index. The command that worked was site:www.seroundtable.com **** -asssdsd but that seems to no longer be...

Posted on July 27, 2007 7:38 AM

Did you know that if you wanted to ensure that zero supplemental results come up for a site command at Google, you can type your query in the syntax of site:www.example.com/* I speculated over at Search Engine Land that Google...

Posted on July 13, 2007 7:34 AM

Gabs, a moderator at Search Engine Roundtable Forums, discovered an interesting way of determining how to find supplemental results on .co.uk domains. According to his blog post, if you click on "Search for Pages from the UK," you will see...

Posted on May 1, 2007 11:51 AM

On a recent WebmasterWorld thread, a member asks how the multitude of identical news stories in Google News are handled. Question: how does the dupe issue effect google giving me credit? The articles are identical but I am not sure...

Posted on April 20, 2007 8:45 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting many cases of people noticing the pages on their site going into the supplemental index. But even more so, they are noticing that a site:www.domain.com command returns one result and then shows you: In order...

Posted on February 9, 2007 7:13 AM

It seems the more Google talks about the supplemental index, you know the results in Google that are labeled as "supplemental," the more confused SEOs are, including myself. Here is an image of what a result in Google.com from the...

Posted on November 20, 2006 7:13 AM

You ever want a way to determine the number of supplemental results a particular site may have? In the past, you did a site command and sifted through the available pages to get an idea on that number. Now, Google...

Posted on September 14, 2006 10:53 AM

GoogleGuy is still active in the forums, updating Webmasters on Google's latest changes. He explained earlier this morning that we should be expecting "fresher supplemental results" in the index. Okay, I believe most/all U.S. users should see radically fresher supplemental...

Posted on August 8, 2006 9:50 AM