steveb - 9:47 pm on Nov 12, 2006 (gmt 0)

"Most pages that were tagged supplemental had the same meta description tags two months ago..."

Which puts those pages in a different category than healthy pages being talked about. The pages had a problem.

"And there's nothing I can do in that scenario except wait patiently for Supplemental Googlebot to roll around."

No, that has nothing to do with it really. People need to remember that the main index and the supplemental one are parallel to each other. Supplemental bot has nothing to do with the main index. Once you have a supplemental, you can have it for about a year. But you can also have the same URL in the main index.

You don't "go supplemental". Your page is dropped from the main index, leaving only the previously hidden supplemental to rank.

"So, to get my site out of the supplemental index, I may have to get a bunch of links pointing directly at my supplemental pages. That's easier said than done."

Totally irrelevant. Google doesn't care where links are, and doing something like linking from domainA to internal pages of domainB will be no more help to get a page regularly indexed than internal links.

"So, "getting crawled", in steveb's terms, really means having IBLs from other sites,"

Huh? Getting crawled is having Googlebot visit a page. I don't understand what you are trying to say here. "Crawled" has nothing to do with good or bad linking structure. It means Googlebot actually devouring your page.

It may be a just a problem a couple of you are having in using standard terms in an exotic way.