JBCR Virtual Solutions Blog

Over the hol­i­days I was read­ing an arti­cle from WebProNews on the Sup­ple­men­tal Index. If you are unfa­mil­iar with the term, let me explain.

Back in 2003 Google intro­duced the Sup­ple­men­tal Index. This was an index (data­base) where web sites, pages went when not up to stan­dards (less impor­tant or less trusted) for Google’s main index (data­base). Now this expla­na­tion is a ‘brief’ to say the least, but you get the idea.

Many busi­ness own­ers were quite upset, and right­fully so, by this because if some­one typed in a search term / phrase and your site / pages were in the Sup­ple­men­tal Index your site would not come up IF oth­ers did show for the search in the main index. They would only show IF they search did not turn up results in the main index.

It’s been reported by Google Search Qual­ity Team that now when some­one types in a search term / phrase both the main and sup­ple­men­tal index will be searched. This is indeed good news.

Read more about this here:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/ultimate-fate-of-supplemental-results.html

Happy New Year!

Jan