Comments on: Gaining the Second Indented Google Listing

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:27:41 +0000

I have had my blog http://www.learntoblog.net up for about a month now and today I noticed that a visitor to my blog had entered just the right search terms to bring my site up as not only a #1 google spot but a #1 spot with a coveted indented second listing.

What I really find amazing it that I cannot seem to get a good listing using my domain name, ‘learn to blog.” However, if you catch some of the tags just right in a search, I get listed fairly high.

I’ll be glad if I can ever make sense of this SEO thing.

Thanks,
Jim

By: Markus Merz

Markus Merz — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:37:12 +0000

A) One full article with high density on that specific keyword.
B) Using internal keyword links in all articles and excerpts which also have a rel=”tag” and lead to an internal search result page where the keyword density is high in the beginning of that result page.

B (the internal search result) is loved by Google and A is the second link on the SERPS in most cases.

Just discovered that mechanism by accident since using extensive keyword tagging with articles. Primary goal was to have a controllable metadata level beside categories in my article structure.

As always just my 2c …

By: audienceone

audienceone — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:43:03 +0000

A bit of OT: while it does bring up this blog as the first result on *blogs and adsense* it is second only without the AND operator.

By: Jeff White

Jeff White — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 23:11:38 +0000

good advice. I’m going to try this. I have had indented listings on several sites in the past but they come and go quickly. Never really knew what caused it.

By: Michael Hampton

Michael Hampton — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:44:37 +0000

Now I want to know how you get not indented listings, but a mini-sitemap.

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:17:54 +0000

Ack! I lost half of my entry! Nuts. Yes, Patrick. Your entry was what I referred to. Will rewrite what I had wrote.

By: Patrick Gavin

Patrick Gavin — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:15:18 +0000

Hey Aaron, we also discussed this a bit, and one way to achieve this is to build links into a page of your site that also is ranking somewhere in the SERPS for that same keywords phrase. Building links to that second page can help you get that coveted second indented listing. More details here http://www.linkbuildingblog.com/2006/06/indented_google.html