tropicalseo.com — In the past 6 months Google has become much more selective about which web pages to include in its main index--many pages are listed only in the "supplemental index", which is penalized in most search results. Andy Hagans gives 5 tips to ensure a new web site gets fully listed in Google's main index.
Feb 12, 2007 View in Crawl 4
scoreboard27Feb 12, 2007
How much do you think the word "Supplemental" next to your site affects click-thru rates to your site? Most users don't know what the Supplemental Index is, but they're probably smart enough to figure out that it ain't good. Just another reason to take care of this problem...and soon...if it affects your site's indexing.
fkxfkxFeb 12, 2007
I have not yet seen the word supplemental yet on any search on any site, mine or anyone elses.Maybe this is something google does to mess with spammermasters or overly obsessive types?
tikozFeb 12, 2007
Tropical SEO » How to: Escape Google’s Supplemental IndexLol he should take a look to his own blog for some advices.
mr_scientistFeb 12, 2007
He is following his own advice: The article has a link to an article on linkbaiting which specifically mentions Digg and how to game it. "How to..." is one of the suggested title patterns that incite links and get diggs. Apparently it's working, the story made it to the homepage.
animalmuther76Feb 13, 2007
how is it a bad sign for digg if stories digg users are interested in make it to the front page? isn't that the whole idea
ldkronosFeb 13, 2007
I'm certainly not saying this doesn't exist, but I agree with fkxfkx in saying that I've NEVER seen this before. The linked article doesn't even provide an example search query. I found a couple pages with example search queries, but when I tried them I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. If the author wants to blog about this, would it be that hard to include a screenshot so that everyone at least knows what is being discussed?
mr_scientistFeb 15, 2007
I don't believe that enough people are interested in SEO stories to explain the high frequency with which they make the homepage. It's not a shot in the dark, there are good reasons to believe that it is a result of manipulation. It has nothing to do with my disliking black hat SEO. It's in Digg users' best interest not to reward people who outright advocate Digg manipulation. The low digg count, the type and number of comments and the temporal alignment of the diggs in the comments all point to manipulation. That doesn't mean that nobody is interested in SEO. Heck, I am interested in what these bastards do, simply to be able to defend against them, but I know that diggs help them, so I don't digg these stories.