Icon next to Search Engine listing

Mojo98 · 12-05-2007, 04:06 PM

Hi Everyone,

I'm new here, and have a question for you SEO Pros...

Recently I did a search on Google and noticed that one of the listings had an icon displayed next to the listing. I would love to know how this can be accomplished!!!

To see what I'm talking about, go to Google and type in "how to setup any movies subtitles". You'll see that the second listing is from MetaCafe.com and has an icon next to the listing. Yahoo also displays the same thing except on Yahoo you can actually play the video right there from the search engine results without going to the web page itself.

Does anyone know how to do that?

tdd1984 · 12-05-2007, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Mojo98

Hi Everyone,

I'm new here, and have a question for you SEO Pros...

Recently I did a search on Google and noticed that one of the listings had an icon displayed next to the listing. I would love to know how this can be accomplished!!!

To see what I'm talking about, go to Google and type in "how to setup any movies subtitles". You'll see that the second listing is from MetaCafe.com and has an icon next to the listing. Yahoo also displays the same thing except on Yahoo you can actually play the video right there from the search engine results without going to the web page itself.

Does anyone know how to do that?

Authority as your domain ages and you get more links and etc things like that will start to happen, and your deep links will show for example search for
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...fe&btnG=Search

see how the deep links show

Mojo98 · 12-05-2007, 05:56 PM

I'm referring to the JPEG image located to the left of the search engine listing, not how deep the links go...

If you look at the source code of that page you'll see what I'm talking about:

<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.metacafe.com/thumb/447937.jpg" />

The image mentioned in that link above is the same image located to the left of the search engine listing, so I imagine that's the key to getting it to work. I've tried it on my website, and i'm waiting for it to update on Google and Yahoo to see if it takes effect, but I was wondering if anyone else knows how that works just to see if I'm missing some code.

searchbliss · 12-05-2007, 06:25 PM

I've never heard of this or seen it. I added a unicode "star" in my title tag 6 years ago and it used to show on all of the SE's, so then I added it to all of my pages...dumb idea. The SE's figured it out and ignored it. I had to then go back and remove all of the cr@p from my title tags. Yes, my site stood out, but it didn't help the SERP's, so what was the point. I was lucky I wasn't dropped. I would avoid this unless it is an exepted method...which I doubt, or all of the results would have them...and boy, would this look horrible when doing a search.

tdd1984 · 12-05-2007, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mojo98

I'm referring to the JPEG image located to the left of the search engine listing, not how deep the links go...

If you look at the source code of that page you'll see what I'm talking about:

<link rel="image_src" href="http://www.metacafe.com/thumb/447937.jpg" />

The image mentioned in that link above is the same image located to the left of the search engine listing, so I imagine that's the key to getting it to work. I've tried it on my website, and i'm waiting for it to update on Google and Yahoo to see if it takes effect, but I was wondering if anyone else knows how that works just to see if I'm missing some code.

yes and I just told you its because that website has got authority and its been listed by search engines for awhile, the same reason why its deep links are showing.

redeemer_spawn · 12-06-2007, 11:19 AM

I agree with tdd1984., maybe it because they have the authority to done that which are listed by SE's

tdd1984 · 12-06-2007, 11:52 PM

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Originally Posted by redeemer_spawn

I agree with tdd1984., maybe it because they have the authority to done that which are listed by SE's

Thats what it is

harsha22 · 12-07-2007, 04:35 AM

Check this term in google: gypsybandito Even for this it is appearing.
I beleive Google considers the authority & domain of the sites for this.

redeemer_spawn · 12-07-2007, 11:03 AM

did anyone here knows what was the criteria of SE's to give authority to a certain site to have that one.,

corlock · 12-07-2007, 11:15 AM

the way I see it, those thumbnails beside the indexed site indicates that, that site/link has a viewable video. I usually see this things in SERP and the common link is for you tube which I think has a high authority in Google. I really have no idea on how to gain such authority in order to get indexed in SERP with a thumbnail beside its link.

DarkAzrael · 12-09-2007, 04:02 AM

I agree, I have only seen that related to video / graphics on the site. Some keywords on google generate a thumbnail of image results as well. If this is not the case, I'd love to know why, it would be a great marketing tool.