Google geekerati required.

Anyone know how this site is getting the price list to show in the meta description tag.The site is nationwide

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ab...&biw=939&bih=541&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&cad=b

Earl

 

[RadiusBPO]

weird huh same with this http://www.google.co.uk/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=payday+loans+no+credit+check

Googles ignoring the meta desc and just making it up from tables... irritating.

 

[aidan1980]

dont think they are the only ones mate. I saw something like this earlier but didn't take no notice.

 

[Curious]

I believe it's just a new way they're trying to show data - links below something I read the other day.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-real-estate-snippets-13928.html

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-snippets-for-list-pages.html

 

[cmcp]

ul class="lsnip", if that's any help.

edit, that's the one

I believe it's just a new way they're trying to show data - links below something I read the other day.

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-real-estate-snippets-13928.html

http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/08/new-snippets-for-list-pages.html

 

[ScottB]

Yeh it's a new thing - more rich snippets for lists / tables. Seems a bit random whether or not your site generates now, but probably triggered by PR / page activity / some other stuff (ha! vaguest response evah!).

 

[cmcp]

Yeh it's a new thing - more rich snippets for lists / tables. Seems a bit random whether or not your site generates now, but probably triggered by PR / page activity / some other stuff (ha! vaguest response evah!).

or.............................. SEMANTIC MARKUP! woo!

 

[OldWelshGuy]

they have been moving this way for a while.
OWG TOP TIP. put your bricks n mortar address in the right format on your site and watch your google places position climb

 

[Curious]

What a great forum. One question, a couple of hopeful answers and some little gems.

Love it.

 

[UKSBD]

although not the case on that site, you really should be looking in to schema.org

 

[OldWelshGuy]

microformatting is big on the google list of 'things to use' right now.

 

[Newcott]

they have been moving this way for a while.
OWG TOP TIP. put your bricks n mortar address in the right format on your site and watch your google places position climb

Out of interest what would be the correct format?

Ta,

 

[UKSBD]

Out of interest what would be the correct format?

Ta,

have a read at http://schema.org/

http://schema.org/PostalAddress

 

[ClicProject]

According the official google search blog:

"If a search result consists mostly of a structured list, like a table or series of bullets, we’ll show a list of three relevant rows or items underneath the result in a bulleted format"

 

[OldWelshGuy]

What he said above Google bots behave differently and reward those that make their life easier

 

[Newcott]

Ta Muchly.

 

[MASSEY]

they have been moving this way for a while.
OWG TOP TIP. put your bricks n mortar address in the right format on your site and watch your google places position climb

Did that ages ago, never did nowt..

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I have seen these meta description lists not just for prices but for directories listing companies, i doubt the directories added any markup in order to get this to display. Google do it of their own accord in my opinion.

 

[ClicProject]

I have seen these meta description lists not just for prices but for directories listing companies, i doubt the directories added any markup in order to get this to display. Google do it of their own accord in my opinion.

I agree with you there massey, I have implemented rich snippets and microformats on several sites for reviews, event listings and so on with great sucess, so when I saw these new types of snippets, I immediately investigated. There is no extra markup at all, google has just deduced that it should show these results because most of the data on the page consists of tabulated data or lists.

What is a bummer, is a competitor for one of my sites selling holiday accommodation has got these new listings because their site is coded with old school tables, where mine is divs and css. Maybe have to recode it using lists instead...

 

[fisicx]

That response makes no sense.

schema.org IS the way to go, all the major search engines have signed up and it does work.

If fact it integrates with google+ profiles as well so it's wins all round.

schema.org is NOT richsnippets or microformats.

Massey, you can't have implemented the schema.org address format ages ago because it's only recently been published

 

[UKSBD]

Did that ages ago, never did nowt..

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I have seen these meta description lists not just for prices but for directories listing companies, i doubt the directories added any markup in order to get this to display. Google do it of their own accord in my opinion.

Google isn't using the rich texts in the SERPs yet for localbusiness (but that could change at any minute, if it hasn't already)


They do use a lot of the others like reviews, events, products, etc.
And yes, a number of directories use rich text to display reviews in the SERP's

 

[UKSBD]

I agree with you there massey, I have implemented rich snippets and microformats on several sites for reviews, event listings and so on with great sucess, so when I saw these new types of snippets, I immediately investigated. There is no extra markup at all, google has just deduced that it should show these results because most of the data on the page consists of tabulated data or lists.

What is a bummer, is a competitor for one of my sites selling holiday accommodation has got these new listings because their site is coded with old school tables, where mine is divs and css. Maybe have to recode it using lists instead...

Have to agree a little bit, I think the displays the OP are talking about aren't related to rich text, and is more down to structure, a bit of a stepwards back in my opinion.