Google Eliminates their Supplemental Index
December 20th, 2007 | 2 commentsI’ve been subscribed to the WebProNews newsletter for a long while now. Although 90% of their broadcasts are annoying promo’s, they do occasionally send out a good story and they’re always offering excellent video interviews with some of the bigger names in the industry.
Today I received a mailing from them in regards to Google’s announcement that they have discontinued their separate supplemental index and search queries will now draw from the same bucket.
The “SI” is where pages with very little “PageRank,” long complicated URL’s etc. would go. It is commonly referred to as “Google Hell” and some have said it’s nearly impossible to get pages out of there, although I was able to get 500+ pages of one of my article sites out of it with a simple internal linking tweak.
It’s more or less a separate “databse” of results that Google rarely pulled from.
Is it good or bad?
It’s good for those who have pages with complicated URL’s that contain good info. It’s bad for those who’s pages ended up there because they were trash.
There are many other factors that go into this though. To be honest with you, I don’t know what to think about it yet.
I know it will be good for my article sites. I’m very strict with moderation of the articles so I insure that they are all quality. However, many are submitted to several other sites, putting some in Google’s SI. So for my article sites it’s good.
But, there are alot of spammers out there that may get more traffic because of it.
Who knows, we’ll see I guess.
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20th December, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Yeah, I’m sure Google knows what they are doing.. pretty big company
but it’s good they cleared up the confusion with supplemental results. I think they still exist to some degree for things like duplicate content. Apparently it’s been changed for a bit now and just announced so if you’re up to speed with things it shouldn’t hurt your site.
26th December, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Yahoo is a pretty big company as well and they certainly have issues
I haven’t seen much a change with any of my article sites. They are pretty good quality sites, but any article directory will have low PR pages. EzineArticles even has pages that were in Google hell.
From what I’ve gathered, there really hasn’t been much change in their rankings. I think they just decided to take the “supplemental index” title off of it. I’d imagine most of the pages that were in the sups get the same traffic as they did before.