By: Joe Balestrino | Source: buzzle.com

There have been many inquires as to what supplemental listings are in Google and why so many sites are effected. I put together this simple Q and A that will help you find and correct problems your site may encounter with the supplemental index.

What are supplemental results?

Supplemental results are Googles way of preventing questionable pages from being found in the main index. Supplemental results are usually shown after the main results. Supplemental results are crawled less and not trusted by Google, which is why the are supplemental.

How do you know if any of your pages are in the supplemental?
Go to Google and use site:www.yoururl.Com. Look at all the urls of your site. Supplemental results will indicate they are such next to the URL.

Can pages in the supplemental index rank on Google?

Yes, they can. But only if there aren’t any other results available for the phrase being searched.

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By: Doug Caverly | Source: webpronews.com

A new Google service has been spotted; it might issue tests and exams to students. The service could quiz potential job candidates, as well. Or it could do something else entirely, or even die before it ever makes it out of the developmental stage, but screenshots of Google Online Assessments have proven that the service is, in fact, real.

The Google Online Assessments site has been taken down, and the Google Press Center has been quiet all day, so the service obviously isn’t ready to go public just yet. Still, that screenshot and those CSS class names have opened up some very interesting possibilities.

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