The end of the supplemental index?
December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment
For those of you not familiar with the Google supplemental index, I found the best ever summary of this indice (In´dice – n. 1. Index) at Tropical SEO to sum up what this is. Quote: “The Google Supplemental index is the Siberian work camp for web pages.” I find that statement hilarious and I laughed out loud.
In the past, if you’re website had pages that Google didn’t trust or had a lot of inlinks that were suspect, Google would place your pages in a huge, dark, dusty database where you would technically be “indexed” and could “possibly” show in the search results, but the chances were slim. The official Google statement on this subject was that they would search this index if and when they had to fulfill a harder or more esoteric (obscure) search query. Read more
