Google Sitemaps and Supplemental Results
Ok it has been one month since Google launched their sitemap feed program. So far it has proven to really speed up the indexing process, but there might be something else very helpful coming out of this as well.It appears when you submit a sitemap of a site that has most or all of their pages in the supplemental index you will start to see them finding their way out of this deadly trap. This is great news since there has never been a way to get pages out of this index without renaming the pages.
Case Study:
I have a site that was 100% indexed in the supplemental index. After submitting a sitemap to Google's new program, 3 days later about half the pages started to show in the regular index.
The only strange thing was the cache dates were not current. They were newer then they were in the supp index but not dated after I submitted the sitemap. I still feel the pages where bumped out of the supp index and queued to be index by the regular index due to the Google sitemap program.
Additional information:
- Site is only 6 months old, so this could be a factor of getting out of the aging delay/sandbox phase as well.
- Site has always been updated on a monthly basis and links have grown slowly and naturally.
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