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Rosie O'Donnell's Google Sitelinks Value Meal
April 26, 2007
An interesting thing happened on Rosie's way out of the door of The View; her sudden, earth-shattering departure caused a quake of an anomaly in the Google result for her name -- namely, the exact same URL appearing twice as a result, both #1 and #2:
What gives? SEO purists might argue that as result #1 is in the Sitelinks formation and Rosie’s site itself links out in the main navigation to her blog, the URL highlighted above exists as both a shortcut that will save users time, per Google’s explanation of the criterion for URLs selected for the formation--
Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they're looking for.
--and also exists on its own, as a blog, and thus merits a listing apart from one tied to Rosie's site, ergo the Value Meal Result.
But surely this rare achievement cannot be helped by the fact that Rosie's site itself argues against that very justification with its Title Tag. Aren't those supposed to be quite important, and importantly unique?
Does Rosie's massive influence extend even into the algorithmic sphere?
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posted by John Lustina at April 26, 2007 03:37 PM
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