Someone asked me what Google Double or Indented Listings where today, and how to get them. Simply put, it’s when you have two listings from the same website in the top ten results in Google instead of one (in normal view with 10 results). Generally speaking, this means you have at least two pages with enough link equity to reach the top ten results – two pages very relevant to the search term. You can achieve this with relevant pages, good internal structure and of course links from other websites. It’s far easier to achieve in less competitive verticals but in the end is does come down in many cases to domain authority. To get a double or indented listing;

  1. A bit of Domain Authority
  2. Targetted, relevant articles
  3. Internal Linking (esp between articles)
  4. The odd link from external sites (if any)
  5. A bit of duplicate content

ie nothing spectacular. It’s quite simple stuff. It is easier however to get a double listing for your site on longer search terms especially if you have a site focused on a niche.

A Google Double Listing

A Google Indented or Double Listing

Say a page is in position 1 and another page from the same site has position 8 (in a regular top ten view in Google preferences). Google will join these listings together in position 1 and two, giving you the lions share of the clicks. This represents 20% of the Google organic listings instead of the usual 10% – and an increase in clicks to your properties. You would be crazy not to optimise a second page if you had a page in the top ten – especially in less competitive niches. If you want double listings (or indented listings), add relevant content on your site that meets the expectations of a searcher looking for that particular phrase and you’ll probably aquire them naturally if you have some relevant links too. If you want a more surgical approach, you’ll need at least two pages optimised for the same term and interlinked closely. It might not be obviously apparent which page on your site is ranking 2nd if it is in the 2nd or 3td page of results but find it and then optimise it, linkbuild to it (start with internal links) and when it hits the top ten, you’ll get a double listing. Andy Beard & Aaron Wall comments on double listings too if you want to learn more.

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