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    Google Sublinks As Sub Listings Being Tested

    This morning, I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google was testing some type of sublink to the search results, to show additional search results from the same site, but not as indented results. It is really hard to explain, so here is a picture provided by BlogsDNA: It seems to currently be forum […]

    This morning, I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google was testing some type of sublink to the search results, to show additional search results from the same site, but not as indented results. It is really hard to explain, so here is a picture provided by BlogsDNA:

    Sub Forum Links in Google

    It seems to currently be forum related, but I am not able to reproduce these results on any browser or platform. I personally like it, because forums do typically contain a lot of duplicate threads, but with slightly unique replies and questions. This has not yet been confirmed by Google as an official test, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it was.


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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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