Google Continues Testing Navigational Link Placement
It appears we have more sightings of Google experimenting with additional navigational link placement ideas. These are links that let you reach various Google search services beyond web search. On Friday, we reported about navigational links appearing at the top of on the Google home page. Later, Google Blogoscoped added that they are also testing […]
Barry Schwartz on March 26, 2007 at 9:12 am | Reading time: 1 minute
It appears we have more sightings of Google experimenting with additional navigational link placement ideas. These are links that let you reach various Google search services beyond web search.
On Friday, we reported about navigational links appearing at the top of on the Google home page.
Later, Google Blogoscoped added that they are also testing the same concept on the internal search pages.
Next, the PPC Blog spotted Google testing the same navigational links in a box directly above the sponsored results.
Here is one image showing all the various tests:
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.