Google Subscribed Links – Yet Another Way to Appear at the Top
26th October 2007 by Kerry Dye
It has been around a while, but hadn’t really impinged on anything I was
doing. However, I have just taken a slightly deeper look at Google Subscribed
Links and it’s a really interesting addition to the Google portfolio.
I’ve played around with Google Coop before, in terms of Custom Search
Engines, but not the aspect that is subscribed links. In essence, you create a
file of a specific format (XML, TSV or RSS), tell Google about it, get people
to subscribe to it and then the results will appear above the normal Google
results.
Here’s an example:
Of course, the downside is that unlike a normal OneBox, you have to get
people to actually subscribe to your information. However, there’s still the
possibility here that there are people want to know your information above the
Google Search Results. It’s less random in some ways because a first answer (if
there is one) will come from a site they trust.
So if Vertical Leap created one for our blog entries, and I searched for
something like "Universal Search" the first entry that would come up
before the Google results would be the blog I did on Universal Search Examples
last month.
This way, I could do a search on Google for something to do with SEO and it
would always let me know if we have blogged about the subject in the past.
If you have a site that provides information or has a community, then this
would be a good thing for you to implement as a way of enhancing the search
experience for your visitors (and keeping you in mind).
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