Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'supplemental results'

Long Tail Queries Ruling Google? Supplemental Index Ranking As Main Index Results in Google

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...

Google Hides Supplemental Results Label in Google.com: Webmaster Reaction

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....

Yet a New Way to Find Supplemental Results in Google

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...

Google Drops Supplemental Results Query Command

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...

Site Command That Shows Zero Supplemental Results

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...

Google Placing UK Filtered Results in Supplemental Index?

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...

How Google Handles Duplicate News Stories

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...

Google Getting Stricter On The Supplementals?

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...

Confusion Over Google's Supplemental Index

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...

Checking a Site's Supplemental Results in Google

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...

Expect "Fresher Supplemental Results" At Google.com

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...


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