Re: "Business Scramble To Stay Out of Google H

ahecht writes: "As an update to the "Businesses Scramble To Stay Out of Google Hell" story, Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Webspam team, offers a rebuttal on his blog:

Having urls in the supplemental results doesn't mean that you have some sort of penalty at all; the main determinant of whether a url is in our main web index or in the supplemental index is PageRank. If you used to have pages in our main web index and now they're in the supplemental results, a good hypothesis is that we might not be counting links to your pages with the same weight as we have in the past.

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