How to get a thumb image to the left of your Google listings?
 

Example: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&c...on&btnG=Search

Check the first link to a datpiff.com mixtape. It's a thumb image of the mixtape. I wonder how he got them to do that? Is it some kind of tag in the header?

I doubt its a meta tag, but like their directory structure, they have algorithms that will pick up to 6 popular links on your site and post em.. at their discression...

A lot of tube sites have that, youtube, break, metacafe, etc. I think its done on a case by case basis.
WG

it's reserved for gangster rappers you need bullet wounds and street cred to get one

Having authority in the serps... Datpiff is a no fuck around site.

Authority is key.:thumbsup

You mean favicon?

http://www.degraeve.com/favicon/

Your site needs authority in order to get the thumbs displayed.
the meta for it is

Hm, I know datpiff is pretty "official", but there are a couple other mixtapes sites with the same amount of traffic.

Traffic volume doesn't equal authority... it's just one part of it, a minor part at it.

Find another search phrase that pulls a video on the listing and chances are it's going to have a thumbnail next to it. Number 10 slot here has a thumbnail for a video.

thanks for sharing!

I can get a thumb beside your listing in 48 hours.

How? :pimp

Would love to know how hehe.

heh i said i could get it there not tell you how i got it there.

This is where gfy needs a private forum

hit me up :winkwink:

You put me on a mission to figure it out myself. :thumbsup

They are listed as a video publisher on Video.google.com That thumb is cached there or fed through mRSS and detected as the indexed video listed on their page.

See also http://www.google.com/support/webmas...y?answer=80472 thumbnail location

http://www.google.com/support/webmas...n&answer=80471

Win!