Google Rolls Out Sitelinks Display For Forums
Sep 30, 2009 at 10:47pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Discussion forums are a popular way for people to find answers online, but forums often have multiple “threads” or conversations on the same topic. Now Google’s listing forums in a new way to better expose relevant threads.
In searches that bring up a forum listing, Google’s now showing additional forum threads below the main listing, like this:
The format is similar to Google Sitelinks, small links that sometimes appear below the main listing that shows at the top of a Google search results page or recently, within the description as well. Internally, Google calls this “forum clustering.” They been spotted earlier this month when in testing, and now they’re official.
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oh yeah duh i should have cliked on the “spotted” link above. :)
hehe my original post didn’t post after all. was saying I saw this for SE Roundtable listing at #6 for my name earlier, and was wondering if anyone else had seen other blogs getting this treatment or just forums.