Hey Everyone I have the #1 SERP on Google for "Charlotte Nightlife" Whats interesting is the listing now breaks down sub sections of the site for different clubs. Can anyone tell me what caused this? I like it, I just never have seen it that way before. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=charlotte+nightlife Thanks David
davidk420, I have seen that recently. Congratulations, it definately makes your site more prominent and almost like it is a Google sponsored result. I think that you have a great site, and Google realizes it...how, I don't know...
started seeing this a few months ago and asked a similar question myself. Nobody seemed to have a good answer except that Google is obviously recognizing your site as being important for that search.
I did a search here for this issue of how to get Google SERP listings with these snippets or sub-sections. Every time the question comes up someone points to this post by Matt Cutts where he says it is all algorithmic. mattcutts.com/blog/ui-fun-better-snippets/ [sorry, no link posting privileges for me yet] That may be, but clearly some webmasters have figured out how to trip that algorithm to include the snippets. To see an example of the snippets try this term on google: 'seobook': Some people say that Google will add these subsections for authoritative sites. Well if that is the only factor then shouldn't Digital Point have the snippets for a search on its name? Try 'digitalpoint' on google; see no snippets/sub-sections. But digitalpoint has to be an authority and has high PR. I can point to a bunch of lesser forums (and sites) that do include the snippets when you search on their name. Has anyone found a way to manage/achieve Google SERP snippets?
Wow, that's interesting, only sometimes when I search a famous hotel will get same results as yours. You are lucky!
If you do a search for Digital Point, you will see it gets a nice break down. I don't know how to trigger it, but I know how to make them go away The stupid new designer made a landing page that Search Engines cannot see past! (It's a PHP variable thing, and cannot be spidered past the main page) The snippets are gone, the only pages indexed are old sup results, etc. We lost our #1 MSN serp pretty quickly. We still have #1 on Yahoo and Google. The URL on Yahoo has been constantly changing.. sometimes its the root, sometimes is a pretty involved URL. Unfortuantley the designer is the Owner's brother, and I am not being listened to any more. I guess when they finally drop from Google and Yahoo, they might decide to.
Wow, that royally sucks. Having those snippets is a f'ing goldmine, I'd kill to have that. Trying to do it but need to get to #1 first, pretty sure I can make it happen once I do. Is the problem on the site the PHPSESSID? If so that is such a damn shame and waste of good resources... that is so easy to fix. I mean, could take ages for Google to pick back up on the fixed pages, but the sessid itself takes less than 30 minutes to eliminate. -Michael
Yes the Session ID is exactly the problem. Run any spider tool on the site, and you will see it cannot get past those city links. They don't link to a page, they all link to the same index.php with a different session ID. I know it's easy to fix, I've told the owner... but all I get is "brother knows best."
Thats what I deal with on a daily basis when clients pay me tens of thousands of dollars yearly in consulting fees and they follow some cousin or family member who sells fish but is giving me PPC and SEO advice. I got nothing against fish, and as a Jamaican I love it