My name is Matthew Bredel and as of March, 2007, I am a full-time, work-at-home internet marketer.
For close to 10 years, I worked for a defense company which was an OK job, but I was so uninspired in life and frankly, I needed some more money. That is when I first discovered internet marketing! Now I admit that I didn't start making thousands in my first couple of months (in fact, I lost my shirt!), but I finally saw the "internet light"...
Is this really true? I was reading over Yonatan Zunger’s blog post on The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results and really did not know what to think. For years now, we have been battling as SEO gurus the infamous supplemental index. For those of you who don’t know what this is, back in 2003 [...]
Is this really true? I was reading over ’s blog post on The Ultimate Fate of Supplemental Results and really did not know what to think. For years now, we have been battling as SEO gurus the infamous supplemental index. For those of you who don’t know what this is, back in 2003 Google wanted to try an experiment to divide up their indexing into main and supplemental index categories. At the time, it did not seem to be a big deal, but what we learned is that supplemental indexed pages virtually vanished from the search engine results. Some called this the “Google Sandbox Effect” and once you were in the supplemental index (or Sandbox), it could takes months to find your way out.
The reasons were always quite vague in what got a page into the supplemental index. General theories included things like:
- Lack of backlinks
- Poor or little content
- Little website depth
- Duplicate content
- Crazy URL links
- Potential black hat strategies (though, this one borderlines being banned with the same effect)
- etc. etc. etc.
As website developers we put a lot of effort into creating websites that would not fall into these categories.
Now Google apparently tells us there is an end to the differentiation of these two indices. The belief now is that more pages will be indexed and potentially able to be found more easily and spidered more readily.
Don’t think I am a big advocate of the supplemental index, but it is something I have learned how to grow with and deal with. It has driven me to produce more solid, unique content and has prevented me from biting the apple of Eden’s garden known as black hat.
Google is not stupid and their goal is always about providing the best results online. So this makes me scratch my head a little bit. Sure, the Google Sandbox indexed a lot of quality sites (including some of my own at one time or another) but it also got rid of much of the SPAM sites and black hat strategies that existed. I have a feeling that Google has a bigger plan here and that just because the supplemental index is gone does not mean that other, more complex algorithms are either currently in place or coming soon.
Brace yourself for the the next Google Algorithm change…it may be a doozy!
- Matthew Bredel
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like your information; I don’t like the videos. They stop and go, the
sound is jerky- its kind of like listening to someone stuttering, painful to listen to.
AND I’m on a T-1 line at a big university, on the latest, very well maintained, computer equipment.
I have this problem with videos from other people too,
and I don’t know why.
But I will tell you, I don’t bother to listen when it is that difficult. I would rather read.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Hmmm…that is a bummer that the videos are not working that well for you. The videos that are on here come from Blip.Tv. For future reference, you may want to try updating your current version of Flash (http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer). I know that when people watching videos on NetWebVideo have this type of issue, it is usually due to either a slow internet connection (which is not your case) or an outdated flash player. Check it out!
And I am kind of like you, too…I prefer to read, but I have found the majority of people like the videos more. I will still continue to post written blogs, but technology is forcing me into this video age. (I sometimes think the world is just too smart!)…cheers…matt
January 25th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Isn’t it interesting that Google is still (2009)dumping pages into the supplemental index. I don’t think this is going to stop any time soon.
December 27th, 2009 at 12:55 am