Sometimes called "supplemental hell," Google's supplemental results can be damaging to any web site that has dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of pages that fall into that auxiliary part of Google's results. Before I go into further details with examples and fixes, and if you're interested to see if you have pages that are in Google's supplemental results, you can use this search operator to check your Web site's supplemental results: site:www.putsitenamehere.com *** -jwi8sjh.

We discovered a newer version of a popular search operator this afternoon to help web owners view a much larger number of backlinks and on-page references (like SEOposition.com w/o the anchor) from Google. It used to be very easy to view your backlinks in Google using the link: operator but this old method only gives a partial list of total backlinks that link to your site and is by no means a comprehensive look at your total number of backlinks.

Since this new back links method will likely be a temporary loophole, here's how to view your total number of back links in Google using the new method.

I'm reading more and more information lately relating to Google's privacy issues , but it's becoming more evident that Google may be drawing biased conclusions or predicting intent from the webmasters or companies that own many domains.

At SMX Seattle Matt Cutts was asked about Google's intent to use registrar data against webmasters (via John Andrews of Johnon.com). His reply was (paraphrased):