Supplemental result effect

[itravelvietnam]

Dear all,

I have some pages that Google listed in Supplemental results, but I do think that they are not duplicate.

I have 2 flights page:

Page A: Flight from London to Newyork

Page B: Flight from Newyork to London

it means that the Page B shows the return flights, however Google listed Page B as supplemental result, though I do think that their content, and meta tags are different.

So, My questions are:

will the Page B (return flight) affect the ranking of the Page A. And if you experienced it, please give me the solutions.

Thank you very much.

Kurt

PS: sorry if this topic was dicussed before.

[tedster]

Supplemental results are tagged that way for many reasons, most recently because of low PR for that url. Having some supplemental results on a domain is almost the rule now, rather than the exception - from what I've seen lately.

There has been a change in recent months, in other words. Seeing SOME supplemental tags, especially on urls that are a bit remote in the navigational structure of a site, happens a lot.

Yes a supplemental tag indicates urls that are "weaker" in Google' eyes - but they do not hurt other urls on the domain. They are a lot less likely to be served up on a search - so if you want them to be strengthened, find a way to channel more PR to them - or in other words, make sure your site's structure (or inbound links) sends the message that these pages matter more.

Of course, make sure you look at all the other possible reasons for a supplemental tag [webmasterworld.com], too.

[CainIV]

Lately I have been seeing new pages on site with high pagerank that are linked to directly from home, have unique content (not found in google except on the same page) with unique descriptions coming up as supplemental results at the onset.

Can anyone else see this with their pages? Could it be for lower / untrusted sites that new pages are given a low trust score and are arbitrarily placed a sup as default?

Possibly this is a phenomenon that only affects low trust score sight?

Any thoughts....

[Bewenched]

I have seen that there is a "New Round" of pages on our site going supplimental and it appears to be the ones that haven't been updated in a while. Not that the page isn't still relavent or that the copy is bad.. just .. well ... stale i guess.