Comments on: Long Tail De Jour: what’s the point in adding more pages to my site if google doesn’t index them or puts them into the supplemental index? http://seo4fun.com/blog/2007/01/23/long-tail-de-jour-whats-the-point-in-adding-more-pages-to-my-site-if-google-doesnt-index-them-or-puts-them-into-the-supplemental-index.html Search Engines | Blogs | Marketting | PHP/MYSQL | CSS Sun, 25 Mar 2007 23:23:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Halfdeck http://seo4fun.com/blog/2007/01/23/long-tail-de-jour-whats-the-point-in-adding-more-pages-to-my-site-if-google-doesnt-index-them-or-puts-them-into-the-supplemental-index.html#comment-3087 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:50:15 +0000 http://seo4fun.com/blog/2007/01/23/long-tail-de-jour-whats-the-point-in-adding-more-pages-to-my-site-if-google-doesnt-index-them-or-puts-them-into-the-supplemental-index.html#comment-3087 Hey Chris, I agree. I saw you posting a question over at Matt Cutt's blog recently that was kinda related to this post: "So, Matt, can you confirm that the only effect of being in the supplemental index is that the page gets crawled less often, or does it have an impact on ranking?" IMO it can have a big impact on ranking and traffic. One of my white hat 2k+ page site was pulling about 1K a day when it had ~600 pages in the main index, primarily due to internal links anchor text. The site ranked on the first page for virtually every keyword it was designed for. When it "went" supplemental, the ranking and traffic both vanished. If the pages just dropped slightly in PageRank, the ranking drop shouldn't be that dramatic. This tells me links from supplemental pages are devalued. They may pass the normal amount of PageRank, but the ranking benefit from those links IMO are minimal. Hey Chris,

I agree. I saw you posting a question over at Matt Cutt’s blog recently that was kinda related to this post:

“So, Matt, can you confirm that the only effect of being in the supplemental index is that the page gets crawled less often, or does it have an impact on ranking?”

IMO it can have a big impact on ranking and traffic.

One of my white hat 2k+ page site was pulling about 1K a day when it had ~600 pages in the main index, primarily due to internal links anchor text. The site ranked on the first page for virtually every keyword it was designed for.

When it “went” supplemental, the ranking and traffic both vanished. If the pages just dropped slightly in PageRank, the ranking drop shouldn’t be that dramatic. This tells me links from supplemental pages are devalued. They may pass the normal amount of PageRank, but the ranking benefit from those links IMO are minimal.

]]> by: Chris Hunt http://seo4fun.com/blog/2007/01/23/long-tail-de-jour-whats-the-point-in-adding-more-pages-to-my-site-if-google-doesnt-index-them-or-puts-them-into-the-supplemental-index.html#comment-3019 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:18:17 +0000 http://seo4fun.com/blog/2007/01/23/long-tail-de-jour-whats-the-point-in-adding-more-pages-to-my-site-if-google-doesnt-index-them-or-puts-them-into-the-supplemental-index.html#comment-3019 You might also point out that there's a world of difference between "not indexed" and "put into supplemental" when it comes to long tail query terms. If I'm looking for really obscure stuff in the long tail, being in supplemental isn't really a barrier - everyone else's stuff on that subject is gonna be supplemental too. If I'm searching for "spinning blue left-handed Tasmanian widgets" and find your page, maybe I'll link to it - and that's gonna help you rank for "widgets" too. OK, I know, a lot of ifs in there, but it's still true. You might also point out that there’s a world of difference between “not indexed” and “put into supplemental” when it comes to long tail query terms.

If I’m looking for really obscure stuff in the long tail, being in supplemental isn’t really a barrier - everyone else’s stuff on that subject is gonna be supplemental too.

If I’m searching for “spinning blue left-handed Tasmanian widgets” and find your page, maybe I’ll link to it - and that’s gonna help you rank for “widgets” too.

OK, I know, a lot of ifs in there, but it’s still true.

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