Google search result for Segala is a little strange. Do you know why?

Screen shot of a Google search result

I conducted a search for Segala on Google (.com) to see if any of our competitors were squatting on the keyword (this has happened in the past). I was surprised to see that the first result had 7 links to various parts of our Web site underneath the description as per the screen shot above.

Ignore the green tick, that’s what our Firefox extension does to provide more information about the suitability of the content using Content Labels.

Do you know how/why this has happened?


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    4Avatars v0.3.1  elly parker said...

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    4Avatars v0.3.1  D said...

    I see it as a good thing for a website as you get more space on the SERP than all the other sites.


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    4Avatars v0.3.1  Ciaran Rooney said...

    You’ve really never heard of sitelinks? I find that hard to believe. Isn’t POWDR (or is it POWDER now?) all about search?

    http://google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&topic=8523

    :) I wish I was snowboarding, I miss powder!


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    4Avatars v0.3.1  Bernie Goldbach said...

    Google seems to be serving up sitelinks when Googlebot can find and follow a sitemap. The sitelinks are pretty standard–I think they’re useful. In my experience, if Googlebot’s automated process discovers a sitemap with sitelinks that point to one another, you have a good prospect of getting the link list displayed on a search for your site.


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    Paul Walsh  Paul Walsh said...

    @Ciaran - that’s why I hire people who are smarter than me ;)

    POWDER is the W3C name for Content Labels. We’ve named our Firefox extension powdr.


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    4Avatars v0.3.1  Eoin O'Leary said...

    Hi Paul,

    In answer to why it happened …. a question.

    Question: Who does Google.com see as the "Leading independent authority and provider worldwide of Web Accessibility, Site Certification, Trustmarks and Mobile Testing products and services."

    Answer:  http://segala.com/

    Google has been doing this sites it sees as THE Authority on a subject.

    Very good news for Segala ;)

    Regards,
    Eoin


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