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Extra text links on first place Google results

Sneaky natual paid advertising or friendly listing of landing pages?

         

ciaoenrico

3:13 pm on Apr 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



When searching on Google for cars, this is what comes up at first place:

<a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y199/ereid90332/b4db8fe6.jpg" border="0" alt="Image hosting by Photobucket"></a>

Does anyone know what those links on the bottom are? They lead to landing pages for the site, except for the "more results" one, which is, you guessed it, more results.

What is this? Where did this come from? Is this an extra paid listing if you manage to get first place? Or does Google approach the first place sites with an offer for paid advertising?

I am perplexed.

jimbeetle

3:35 pm on Apr 14, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Welcome to Webmaster World, ciaoenrico.

I assume that code you pasted in is a screen shot. WebmasterWorld doesn't allow screen shots and a few other things. You might want to review the welcome letter [webmasterworld.com].

Google started adding the four links in the snippet of the first result back in August. Matt Cutts explains it in UI fun: Better snippets [mattcutts.com].