How Can I Determine Which Results Are From Site Match vs Organic?

[Barleycorn]

What is the trick for determining what results are site match and what are organic? Isn't there some kind of id # when rolling over the link?

[Warren]

Why would you want to do this?

As Tim pointed out at Pub Con, less than 1% of the database comes from PFI (of which Site Match and Site Match Xchange are a part of).

[Marcia]

Warren, the reason I would want to know is because for specific markets and searches it's nice to know how much "serious" competition there is. It's often just part of the research when deciding the feasibility of which keywords to target. That 1% could be assumed to be a serious crowd, and it can't hurt to know and see what else they're doing.

[jcoronella]

Mouse over the listings and look at your status bar.

Organic listings will be listed something like:
[rds.yahoo.com...]

Sitematch something like:
[rds.yahoo.com...]

(note the addition of a double redirect through a second yahoo domain for counting the $$$)

[Warren]

Marcia,

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

Obviously this would be only one of the measure of "serious competition".

Thinking about it further, this would also help to hightlight "the fast mover". That is the person who has recently entered the SERPS to see if they acheived getting into the index via OSM or via organic means.

Thanks for that :)

[Scarecrow]

That information is not correct. While all paid listings have a double redirect, not all double redirects are paid listings. You have to look for the MI=? parameter in the main redirect.

MI=ic is Index Connect/Site Match Xchange, which is the largest category of paid listing. MI=sitematch is the smaller category of paid listing.

Searchenginewatch had an article about this a few weeks ago, but if I give link this post will get deleted, so you're on your own. Danny Sullivan used my data in the article.

[jcoronella]

Ahhh... Thanks Scarecrow. I edited out some of the URL's to abbreviate them, and didn't see that variable.

Why don't you want to post that information here if it is your data?

I also see MI=other for a few listings.