According to our casual observations site: command in Google tends to sort URLs by their length among other criteria (candicates: indexing/caching date, content, uniqueness…etc). To test how this work with pure URLs and minimal content we conducted a test with the following parameters:
Test Date
2nd August 2011
Link source
https://deyandarketing.com/comprehensive-guide-to-reliable-search-results/
Linked pages
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/1.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/12.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/123.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/1234.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/12345.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/123456.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/1234567.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/12345678.html
http://dejanseolovestesting.com/123456789.html
Results
Date: 10th August 2011
As visible from the search query (site:dejanseolovestesting.com) the results are sorted in the following order:
- INDEX
- 1234567
- 123
- 12
- 12345678
- 12345
- 123456
- 123456789
- 1234
- 1
Expected outcome against actual order:
- 7:1234567
- 3:123
- 2:12
- 8:12345678
- 5:12345
- 6:123456
- 9:123456789
- 4:1234
- 1:1
Observations: There seems to be an underlying pattern with numbers funneling down and re-setting at certain points.
Pattern: 7,3,2,8,5,6,9,4,1
We’re currently investigating references, scrappers or linking disruptions to the test.