Multiple Pages of Single Domain

[arshadrehman]

I searched "Welcome to WebmasterWorld Please read the rules" and WebmasterWorld is ranking almost 8 of the top search results. How is this even possible to be ranking this many times on the same domain?

[edited by: goodroi at 8:51 pm (utc) on Jul 31, 2019]
[edit reason] Please no specific keywords, widgetized WebmasterWorld style [/edit]

[grega123]

I guess strong backlinks even to those sub-pages or redirects lol :)

[tangor]

The variety of topics at WW, and the interest in each, is pretty large and varied. :)

@arshadrehman ... Welcome to Webmasterworld!

[lucy24]

Uh-oh, goodroi, I think you may have over-widgetized :)

How is this even possible to be ranking this many times on the same domain?

If you search for anything that is particularly associated with a single domain, the search engines don't have much choice. Try searching for {name associated with well-known site} or {name associated with other well-known site} or for that matter {name associated with little-known site with a distinctive name} and look at how many ways the search engine finds to show you the identical site or group of sites over and over again.

[tangor]

@grega123 ... sometimes restating the obvious is the best way!

Welcome to Webmasterworld! May your backlinks grow strong and many! :)

[CoffeeOrDeathPlease]

Branded traffic. That's all there is to it.

[RedBar]

Branded traffic. That's all there is to it.

Oh if only that were true:-)

lucy24 gave the answer, I often see my sites appear like this since I am the only one with a specific widget query.

[CoffeeOrDeathPlease]

I feel like lucy24 basically just described branded traffic. Sure it's not always the case, but I think it is in OPs case.

[tangor]

This happens quite often and should be expected behavior.

When the serps show something ELSE is when we should get concerned!

[Robert Charlton]

Is this a quoted search or an unquoted search?

Branded traffic more likely on unquoted, as branded search often in effect is viewed by Google as a site: search.

If it's long tail enough, or simply long and specific enough, then search engines, as lucy24 says, simply have no choice.