texasville - 5:35 am on Nov 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

Steveb...pretty much what Ronnie said. You can get that internal page crawled...and if it doesn't have those outside inbound links..it will still not get back into the main index. Simple as that.
As for that little quote by Matt Cutts...
"...having supplemental results these days is not such a bad thing."

That is what we call in Texas...a lot of bull. If it is there, it will be dead to google. It will never be served up to the index no how, no way. It is a different kind of supplemental. It is akin to being a banned page.

Tedster-
"If I see a url tagged as Supplemental, my first question is "why wouldn't Google not want to serve this url as a primary search result?" -- not this "page" but this "url". And if I look closely enough, I can often find an answer."

Yep. You said it yourself in another thread. I can't find it to quote it but I remember you postulating about how you noticed a year ago how google was showing a reluctance to serve up interior pages putting the surfer two clicks away from the information he wanted.
The biggest problem that google is creating here...the catch 22 mentioned earlier and putting the surfer further away from the information they desire.
Currently I have a site that is entirely supplemental except for the index page. It is getting into the top 5 in many search terms for "widgets". This business sells all kinds of widgets. Red, blue, green, etc. Surfer's look for "blue widgets" ...they get served the index page instead of the "blue widgets" page...which makes no sense. It is just stupid.
Sorry but Google's new philosophy of indexing reflects the same management style of a 1980's third world communist country's beaurocracy. It isn't the page's fault...it's google's. And ultimately, the surfer suffers.