Google has removed the ‘Supplemental Result’ label shown in the search results and disabled the search operators that could be used to list them (see their official blog).

Many of the comments on the official blog post post lament the loss of this label as it was a useful way to easily see the pages that Google thought were less important. The post says that Google is working to integrate supplemental results with the normal index so ‘The distinction between the main and the supplemental index is therefore continuing to narrow’.

I can see why people are getting het up about it, but when it comes down to it webmasters just have to continue to try to doing their job well – creating pages full of new, unique content. That’s how you get pages into Google’s index.

Anyway, it makes the supplemental pages bookmarklet I created redundant.

‘Link Bait’ is any content that encourages other site owners to link to a site, and the Text Link Ads Blog juice Calculator is a great example.

It is another tool that allows bloggers to assess and rank the ‘value’ of their blog.

Similiar to SEOMoz page strength and Google PageRank, it uses the number of Bloglines subscribers, Alexa rank, Technorati ranking and Technorati inbound links to give a blog a score out of ten. Blog owners can then display their rank on their site with a badge – which links back to Text Link Ads.

Tools like this are a great way to get traffic and links to a site, bloggers are always interested in knowing how popular their blog is.

The best bit about this tool is that it almost automatically qualifies the links back to Text Link Ads. Those who are likely to add the badge to their site are those who have a high score – great sites to get a link back from!

(See the definition of link bait in the SEO glossary)

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Link Bait and ‘link baiting’ are used to describe content deliberately created and targeted to attract links from other websites.

Webmasters have always tried to create content that attracts visitors (and therefore links since many visitors are other webmasters) but the popularity of social sites like Digg, del.icio.us, MySpace and YouTube, and the millions of blogs, has made it easier to reach large groups of people with specially designed content.

The content can be a controversial, informative or current article, a game, a joke, a download, a video, or an online tool. Anything that another webmaster might find useful and compelling enough to link to.

Some link bait (such as tools and scripts) automatically generate a link back to the site that provides it just because it is used.