Tag Archives: supplemental results

Google Broke My Christmas * (Supplemental Result Query Changes)

By Andy Beard | Published: December 20, 2007

If you read the Google blog or the coverage on Search Engine Land, you might be rejoicing that supplemental results are no more

It has been described as lipstick on a pig and others have just offered tips on site indexing.

What Happened To My /* Search Query?

Before this change, one of the tools still available to SEO practitioners to give an indication of the depth of site indexing was to add /* to the end on a site: search query.

Thus you would use

site:andybeard.eu/ – this would return the total pages supposedly indexed
site:andybeard.eu/* – this would return the

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The Easiest Way To Pull Yourself Out Of Supplemental Results Hell?

By Andy Beard | Published: April 23, 2007

For those that don’t know, “supplemental results” are the bane of search engine optimization specialists.

Here is a great explanation of supplemental results from Rockyfied

Google Supplemental Results: Google supplemental results take pages on your site that have been indexed and put them into a sub database in Google. Supplemental results do not rank well but rather Google uses its supplemental DB to populate its results when they don’t have enough results to show in a given query. This means pages on your site in Google’s supplemental DB will not help you in the serps.

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Matt Cutts | Pagerank | Supplemental Results

By Andy Beard | Published: January 11, 2007

Matt Cutts has mentioned there is a pagerank export in progress.

Pagerank reflected on your toolbar has no effect of your search engine traffic, as the pagerank used by the various data centers is different to that used for your Google Toolbar. Toolbar OageRank is just historical data, often up to 3 months out of date.

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