Google Goes Supplemental
For months now this site and others have been quietly playing a game with google. We are told to design our sites for users and not the search engines. Occaisionaly a site or pages from a site can be thrown into what is known as the “supplemental index” It’s usually reserved for older pages that google does not have a lot of faith in and only shows up in searches if very few worthy pages exist. One theory is that simple things like non-unique page descriptions, something that goes against designing a site for users since most users don’t look at the page source, will trip a site into supplemental. Google crawls regular sites daily or at least weekly, but if a page is listed as supplemental it will not be updated for months.
Well even the giant themselves must have deemed their own site not worthy of being in the regular index. Per the screen shot taken at 9:30AM CDT, all but three pages of google.com is now supplemental.
Written by HVAC-Direct Team on October 2nd, 2006 with
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