Comments on: Three Pages from the Same Domain in Google SERPs?

By: Rhian

Rhian — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:13:38 +0000

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this before a couple of times for unbranded phrases but when I looked this one up what struck me was the paid advert I get at the top that includes 5 different links. That I’ve definately never seen before.

By: Kevin Pike

Kevin Pike — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:02:28 +0000

Oprah.com has 3 for “oprah sauna”

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:19:20 +0000

it seems to not just be brands. Myself and others have seen it for some city hall listings in different municipalities, and other inconsistent applications lacking rhyme or reason, except some aspect of SEO, I suppose.

By: David

David — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:00:06 +0000

It seems its brand/trademark based?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=adwords+campaigns

By: Dana Lookadoo

Dana Lookadoo — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:57:49 +0000

Alan, thanks for bringing this to our attention. I missed Andy’s observation and have not personally seen this other than just now testing. Yes, got the same 3 results you demonstrated.

Agreed, “it’s a whole new ballgame for SEO!” Well said! Looking to you to update this post as you uncover more for us, Sherlock!

By: JR Chew

JR Chew — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:57:49 +0000

All of my (2) sites do this ;)

Here are some of the details of my SEO.

I am very involved with the Google Webmaster site. I use a manually generated .txt sitemap. Each site has 8-10 years of domain age on it’s side. Meta keywords and descriptions on all pages. Between 25-30 pages per site. Before the major re-design we had “sitelinks”. I’ve got a long list of 301 redirects for new pages. 500-600 backlinks, w/ 230-40 for a very specific page.

Hope this helps!

By: Tony Stocco

Tony Stocco — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:21:07 +0000

I’ve only seen this once – if you search “minneapolis depot” in Google, you’ll see the top listing with site links. Just below that, you’ll see the #2 listing is the same domain, but a 2nd level folder / page.

By: berto

berto — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:04:58 +0000

It looks like Google is picking up on Trademarks and other similarly unique terms in a way that is similar to it’s other structured search types (http://www.google.com/landing/searchtips/). Seeing more than one sub-result goes hand in hand with full page dominated by results from the same domain and company. Ex: “sun microsystems java”

It seems as though certain search results being done one way are more relevant than doing them by one set of rules all the time.

By: BonsaiJon

BonsaiJon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:35 +0000

I have noticed that it is happening on a lot of domain searches. Like if I search for any of my domains such as bonsaijon.com, epiccarhire.com etc it shows a tripple listing. I have an example here http://ow.ly/E48l

By: Alan Bleiweiss

Alan Bleiweiss — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:14 +0000

EssexSEO, David,

Thanks for the comments. Yeah it’s just a mystery at this point. I’m doing what I can to dig for an answer. This gives more weight to one site than ever. I expanded on this reality on my own blog today – about the cumulative effects of all the new things Google is doing on their home page.