Google has stopped the indented outcomes, one thing Google has been doing for effectively over a decade. As an alternative, Google will simply listing out the consequence it might have indented in the principle outcomes and never indent it underneath that primary consequence.
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, confirmed this on X saying, “We stopped doing “indented outcomes” just a few weeks in the past.” He stated that is “unrelated to the core replace” and it was eliminated a few weeks previous to when Google began that core replace.
Somebody on Twitter notified me of this, however once I examined it, I noticed the indented outcomes, so I moved on. I assume that particular person (I am unable to discover that tweet now, sorry) was noticing it because it was rolling out and I missed it.
Here’s what the indented outcomes regarded like a few months in the past:
Now once I seek for that set of outcomes, I see the indented outcomes have been eliminated and it confirmed a secondary itemizing a few listings down:
Danny Sullivan stated it was eliminated as a result of it “wasn’t as useful as previously” since Google added steady scroll.
He added that there as no change to the web site variety system, saying, “Our web site variety system nonetheless works to usually present solely two outcomes from the identical web site within the high outcomes, although — as has lengthy been the case — that may fluctuate primarily based on the character of the question.” As a reminder, in 2019, Google restricted the identical area to on common two outcomes per search outcomes web page, however that’s not at all times the case.
Right here is the publish on X:
We stopped doing “indented outcomes” just a few weeks in the past, and it is unrelated to the core replace. Particularly with steady scroll, it wasn’t as useful as previously. Our web site variety system nonetheless works to usually present solely two outcomes from the identical web site within the high outcomes,…
— Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) October 12, 2023
Oh, simply do not confuse indented outcomes with sitelinks – these are sitelinks. Danny Sullivan added “web site hyperlinks like these haven’t modified.”
Replace: I believe I discovered a few of these tweets:
SERP Replace: Google has now fully eliminated indented outcomes from Search. I posted a couple of lower in August, with Google trying to have doubled-down on the change. If a number of outcomes now seem for a website, they’re not grouped collectively. pic.twitter.com/hbkZfTjLn9
— SERP Alert (@SERPalerts) October 6, 2023
Hmm, @dr_pete is perhaps proper right here -> Between Aug 17-19, the share of page-one Google SERPs with indented ends in the MozCast 10K monitoring set dropped from 24.10% to 12.04%. See trending beneath of indented outcomes when checking some high websites: https://t.co/kuzsl6enYN pic.twitter.com/baTpsLRybJ
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) September 5, 2023
Discussion board dialogue at X.
