Jan 11th, 2007
Supplemental Result
If you look at all of your indexed pages on Google (by searching “site:www.yourwebsite.com”) you may see that just after your URL in green it says “Supplemental Result.” What is this and is it a bad thing?
A supplemental result is something that is not in the main results of Google. These will show up in Google searches only if there are no other main results to show. Having your pages indexed as supplemental results does not mean that your site has been penalized by any means. It is not a bad thing. Obviously you want the majority of your pages to be in the main results of Google, but if you have a few pages that are supplemental, I wouldn’t worry about it.
Matt Cutts says that there is a main results Google bot and a supplemental results Google bot. This means nothing to you and me, but I still thought it was interesting to note.
He also says that the supplemental results are being indexed quicker now and will probably start to get a little more traffic than they have in the past.