Indented listings and related paged.

It figured out my series of articles

[pgrote]

Ok, I love Google even though one of my sites is out of the index except for 10 pages. :-)

I wish we could post URLs here as this would make demonstrating this so much easier. I apologize in advance if I have overlooked a rule of posting.

Anyway, I have an online publication that's been around since 1995. All my content is on the web. Recently, I wrote a three part series of articles concerning a web hosting incident.

The format I used for the articles is a base template, with original content inside. I'd say that 70% of the page is original, 30% a template - header/footer/menu, etc.

My directory structre goes like this:

\
\Articles
\Articles\filename.htm

I do not create new subdirs for a series of articles. I keep them all under the same sub dir.

Looking through my referral logs tonight I noticed that one of the words related to this article showed up in 1-10. I load up Google and look and to my surprise it has the first article showing in the tenth position. Here is the kicker, the second article is idented underneath it. Is that cool or what?

So, the articles are published on my site as:

\Articles\commonname1.htm
\Articles\commonname2.htm

Google, somehow, new that they were related even though 70% of the pages were unique. Is that wild or what?

What about Google makes that happen?

[dkoller]

pgrote - you can put the site URL in your profile. Then we can better assess what is going on with those pages.

[dkoller]

ah... you are talking about the indent. When google finds multiple matches from your site it uses this format. The search probably also has a "More results from ..." underneath leading to more of your pages.

This way google can get in more domains for the search, without diluting the results.

[pgrote]

lol - ok now I get it. Maybe it's not so smart. :-) Maybe it just so happens that it found two results from my site with that keyword and put them in date order. Is that what you're saying?

Thanks!