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Google Tries Related Links Again

Back in 2006, Google had a product named related links, which showed related sites on the internet based on your content. Google just recently relaunched related links at relatedlinks.googlelabs.com. The major difference between the old related links and the new one is that the new one only shows related content from within your site, whereas the old one took away visitors from your site.

Often, Google Related Links were confused with AdSense. They did and do look somewhat similar to AdSense link units.

The new related links can be tried out over here. Here is a picture of how they may look:

Google Related Links

Back in the day, Yahoo had a product that was somewhat similar named YQ. YQ is no longer active at this point.

Hat tip to both Google Operating System and Google Blogoscoped.

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About the author

Barry Schwartz
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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