supplemental switching back and forth.

[smokeybarnable]

What would cause a certain page to be supplemental one day and non supplemental the next? In other words why is it changing at all? I'm not making any changes of late. This has been going on for a few months now. Google has indexed 40 of my 250 pages and it seems to have hit a brick wall.

[g1smd]

Google has very different indexes on different datacentres. For example, compare gfe-gv (not updated) with gfe-eh (updated) and you will see.

Additionally, whether a page shows as Supplemental or not depends on which search terms were used. See also: [webmasterworld.com...]

[smokeybarnable]

I always check using the site: command from within google webmaster tools. So if the reason is a duplicate content penalty then why doesn't it just stay supplemental?

[tedster]

No matter where you do your search, you may easily end up at different IP addresses.

Google's index is massively dynamic and sometimes some versions have glitches. And yes, sometimes it seems like every version has glitches.

[Neuro2006]

>Google has very different indexes on different datacentres.
>For example, compare gfe-gv (not updated) with gfe-eh (updated)
>and you will see.

Are you sure it's not the other way round?

[g1smd]

No, gfe-eh has had at least a partial Supplemental Index refresh (several weeks ago): older supplemental results are now gone, and new supplemental results have been created for pages more recently edited or for URLs that now issue a redirect or a 404 error.