"Refine your search" feature and subscribed links

[Eliezer]

From [google.com...]

"Organizations, businesses, and individuals can label websites in the topics they know best."

Does anyone know how to label the websites and how this can be used for SEO?

[Robert Charlton]

Eliezer - Welcome to WebmasterWorld. Google does a very poor job of giving you an overview of this feature, at least in any one place.

The process of creating the links, and what Google does with them, has also gone through an evolution over time. Here's the Google page which provides navigation to various pages on Google's site which will give you a current intro.

[google.com...]

The subscribed links feature as Google describes it in the link you provide requires users to be logged into personalized Google accounts and to subscribe to the custom results you provide. Apparently, when these results reach a certain critical mass, Google moves them to their regular serps page.

I recommending using searching webmasterworld.com for the following topics...

google custom search engines
google co-op
google subscribed links
google refinements

Here are some threads on the topics, all of which are related...

Google Co-op
Search just became Search 2.0
[webmasterworld.com...]

Google Co-op Launches "Create A Custom Search Engine"
[webmasterworld.com...]

Google: Subscribed Links
it's the co-op stuff, rebranded
[webmasterworld.com...]

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 7:59 pm (utc) on Dec. 31, 2007]

[Robert Charlton]

Here's some additional discussion about Google refinements and Google related-to searches, with some links to more Google Co-Op threads....

"Searches related to:" - Where are these from?
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