Why does Google sometimes list 2 Links?

[flexifly]

Does anyone know what factors cause Google to assign a double set of page links to some result listing? (The second line is always indented)

Fore example

Company “A” Home page
Description: “A” Home page
URL: “A” Home page

Company “A” Product 1
Description: Product 1
URL: Product 1

[brian.mark]

From what I understand, that is a second result that would have been on the same page, but instead is grouped with the higher of the results to reduce clutter.

Brian.

[DrTandem1]

I think he is talking about the same page. I think that it is more likely that the search term produced two equivalent results. Since they are on the same site, the subsequent listing is indented.

[TechEvangelist]

Google limits the listings for a domain name to two results to prevent a site from commandeering all ten results on a page. Theoretically, a large site highly focused on a small set of keywords could have ten or twenty pages that rank very high for one search phrase.

It is good when you see more than one page listed for your site in a search. It shows that the site--or at a minimum at least two pages--are focused on the same search phrase and ranking well.

[srlabs]

On many of the more specific search querys (i.e. keywords refer to a specific product) google will return 2 results with my page, the first being the actual product page and the second being the version of the product page found in the websites sitemap.

hope this helps

[brian.mark]

Originally Posted by srlabs

On many of the more specific search querys (i.e. keywords refer to a specific product) google will return 2 results with my page, the first being the actual product page and the second being the version of the product page found in the websites sitemap.

hope this helps

Why do you have 2 versions of this page? The idea behind a sitemap is to get the engines to your actual pages, not to create another set of those pages. That's called duplicate content.

Brian.