(now if we can just get the republican party to take environmental issues seriously we are good.)

Yes, what you say makes perfect sense Halfdeck.

See, some say that’s how republicans are born – by being too idealistic and then becoming disillusioned after getting “mugged.” Not that being a republican is a bad thing. Democrats have a long road ahead of them in the next presidential election.

So now people will just continue to waste their time writing new content not realizing that it is being put in the trash bin simply because it does not have enough pagerank AKA votes…links.

It is depressing.

I know exactly how it works Halfdeck and dream of the day when content can be judged on it’s quality and accuracy, today the best car salesman wins, and that is extremely depressing and wrong. There are all kinds of good people being ignored.

Teri makes some VERY good points, it shows how weak current algorithms are, Google simply is a brand, there is no wizard behind the curtain. I am coming to terms with Google not being “all that”, that’s all…

Anchor text isn’t easy to test because first you have to wait for a supplemental result to be recrawled and that can take months.

“But wait. 90% of my site is in the now-invisible supplemental index so the chances of people stumbling upon those pages are slim.”

She is wrong to depend on Google to gain visibility. Google reflects your visibility on the web; Google isn’t the way to gain visibility. All you need to do is write a blog post – people will read your page in a matter of minutes.

Aaron, PageRank distribution is not evil. If you’re building a rocket (not saying SEO is rocket science), there’s some technical stuff you gotta work out; you can’t just make the rocket look good. You’re not trying to manipulate results; you’re trying to make sure your house doesn’t collapse every time rain falls.

An ordinary webmaster should not be required to compete with or hire professional SEOs and backlink marketers who know all of the tricks (black and white) in order to raise Google PageRank and thus to avoid the supplemental index. Yes, webmasters should do their homework and ensure that their site complies with the Google Webmaster Guidelines. In the perfect Google world, Google would reward and rank those compliant sites according to content and keyword relevance with PR being just a smidgeon in the ranking formula.

If they insist on using a Supplemental Index, how about putting non-compliant sites in there, not the low PR sites? I feel much better now. :) Thanks for listening again.

Teri Fritts
AliceAccents.com

Have a great weekend!

With all joking aside it does make perfect sense, they are removing a label that annoys webmasters and promising those who have gone supplemental that they have not forgotten about them. We will just have to see.

I have no way, at this time, to test for whether a page passes PageRank (and none of the SEO PageRank tools are worth using so no one else has any valid tests, either).

The real issue here is not PageRank but page visibility. If the Supplemental Results pages now have the same chance to rank for queries as non-Supplemental pages, then everything should be okay. If not, then everyone should continue to complain and pressure Google to do the right thing.