Comments on: How is Google Indexing More Search Results?

By: Trinity

Trinity — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:19:43 +0000

Is Google indexing the same as before now the Google Instant has finally rolled out?

By: Roshan

Roshan — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:53:46 +0000

having so many pages from the same website dilutes user appeal and choices. Almost like using the site: operator. Google should come up with all extra pages within sitelinks (perhaps with description / date or other useful information regarding the page) but the search should present results and not results from a site.

By: Rob Woods

Rob Woods — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:34:34 +0000

Yeah. When you look at the query “builddirect” the results that are showing up are the pages that have the highest traffic/most link equity on the www. subdomain only. Even though the blog. subdomain has lots of link equity it doesn’t show up.

By: Rhea Drysdale

Rhea Drysdale — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:45:14 +0000

Jonathan – thanks for taking the time to comment! I’m usually pretty busy, too, so these posts are rare , but I love reading positive feedback that reaffirms that maybe I *should* leave my client work cave more often. Thanks for the positive response! :)

By: Rhea Drysdale

Rhea Drysdale — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:42:48 +0000

Pradeep, I agree that the site links for SEL do meet user intent, but those results below the first result feel off. Will be interesting to see how this shifts as Google collects more data.

By: Rhea Drysdale

Rhea Drysdale — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:40:30 +0000

Whoa, nice SERP. I’ve only seen potential QDF factors for blog-specific searches, haven’t noticed that for any domains that were bigger brands, ecommerce or institutions, so doubt it’d appear here for you. Just did a search for [build direct blog] and getting more posts all from recent months.

Interesting that so many of your results are flooring focused vs main nav on the site. Some duplication with the site links… are those the most trafficked pages?

By: Pradeep

Pradeep — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:37:06 +0000

I am a bit contrast at this point: ‘More Results Don’t Always Meet User Intent’. Though I am not sure about every search, I often reach Apple’s products(Downloads, iTunes,Store etc..) and New York Times latest news updates just from the links it displays beneath the link details(which we call as more results section) which means Google displays the main categories of these sites which are most likely visited by their users. And to the search ‘search engine land’ I see main sections of the website like this:
SEO Become a member
Latest how to articles About Us
News SEM
Columns

Also I noticed that the results to the above search changes when we click on the ‘More results from searchengineland.com’. Which exactly have the results you had had in this post. So just as you said, I believe there can be multiple reasons behind but two points remains same: ‘Relevance and Popularity’.

By: Rob Woods

Rob Woods — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:22:27 +0000

I’m actually seeing this same behavior on results for my brand without any lift in queries for the brand or any signals that would indicate that QDF should kick in. 7 of the top 10 listings for the brand name are from our domain compared to only 2 a few days ago.

By: Ross Hudgens

Ross Hudgens — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:06:06 +0000

Huge buzzkill

By: Jonathan Beaton

Jonathan Beaton — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:56:04 +0000

Pretty busy today but the Twitter post intrigued me because I hadn’t found a quality answer to this question yet. I am sure there are other small variables in play (as always) but I think it is safe to say search volume is the most meaningful correlation.

Thanks Rhea!