Google Testing Yahoo Like Quick Links
Friday, 27 February 2009
Google rolled out a quick test of Yahoo like 'quick links' which are a bit different to the usual sitelinks you see in Google. I managed to capture a screen shot as below before they disappeared. You can see them under the Confused.com listing.
I personally quite like them. The test was on Google.co.uk and pretty widespread in terms of industries and sites they appeared under. Sites generally in the top 2 postions seemed to have the quick links, but the test was pretty brief to draw any real conclusions yet.
Nice ;-) Does anyone know if it will a permanent thing.
Posted by: Johannes | Monday, 09 March 2009 at 12:45 PM
@Johannes, according to Barry at SERoundtable this is very similar to the earliest tests of SiteLinks so I guess it has been on the cards for quite some time. We've heard of it showing up in a few locations recently so I would suppose it might become permanent.
Posted by: Teddie | Monday, 09 March 2009 at 01:29 PM
Not sure I see the point, how is 'home insurance' relevant to a search for 'car insurance'?
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Posted by: annarogers | Tuesday, 10 March 2009 at 12:51 PM
Yes, interesting indeed. Where will the journey go to? In my opionion these links will get permanent!
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Posted by: Annon | Wednesday, 18 March 2009 at 02:05 PM
I managed to catch a glimpse of these 'in-line' links too. I don't think I like them at all, I prefer the exisiting Quick Links that Google Use.
I think the inline version blends in too much.
Posted by: James Bavington | Tuesday, 07 April 2009 at 06:00 PM
Is it the navigation they are using as the quick links?
Posted by: Ginette | Tuesday, 07 April 2009 at 11:55 PM
I like the idea of the quick links as I think it helps navigate the site a lot easier. Do you think all these quick links would give strength and free link juice to websites? So when google crawl websites like yahoo and find 5 extra links to a website would this help the website?
Posted by: Michael Thomas | Monday, 12 October 2009 at 09:43 AM
I've been wondering about these mini-links for a while now. I curious if they are using my navigation for the mini-links or does it require new code of some kind.
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