Comments on: Sitelinks: Google could do more about it

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:00:34 +0000

Hmm… I didn’t think about that search angle. In that case we can also do self-search right?

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:59:52 +0000

It might take a while… But trust me, it will appear sometime but what you get to see there may not be always the desirable links.

By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 13:15:23 +0000

I have sitelinks to my blog too. I got them after nearly 8 months of blogging. I think it also depends on the amount of time your blog title is searched for.

By: Custom Essays

Custom Essays — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:11:35 +0000

Google has indexed all the pages of my website but search results do not show any side links. I think, it has to do something with site map.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:48:19 +0000

Yep Jacques, I really hope that they will listen and improve the same. At least, they are a lot better than Yahoo on the ‘listening’ part

By: Jacques Snyman

Jacques Snyman — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:27:38 +0000

The great thing about Google ios that they listen, and if enough people harp on a common subject they will pay attention to it. Perhaps getting the sitelinks you’d like visible on the returned searech engine results entail building quality links to the targeted pages. We know their algorithm is driven by links, big time.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:09:31 +0000

Thanks Chris for the compliments!

By: Chris Peterson

Chris Peterson — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:21:26 +0000

Ajith, simplified language & engaging description of interesting feature, sure one with open eyes will be able to take advantage of it, great value to your viewers!

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:31:53 +0000

@Divyun, That’s great.. You should be getting sitelinks for other keyword searches as well

@BlogrPro, exactly… the problem is that there’s no way to tell Google which one to list. Google provides us option only to delete some links.

@Pavan, thanks for summarizing the evolution of sitelinks. Personally I believe that it gives a very good consolidated view of a site if done properly.

@Tushar, it doesn’t take too long before you get there

@Raju, ‘mystery’ is the right term for sitelinks

@Suresh, we all like it…only if they were showing good links…

@Arun, same for me… But I checked out shoutmeloud… Google has listed his about page, services etc

@Nihar, that’s what.. The Google Webmaster Tools should have some option for the same…

By: Nihar

Nihar — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:48:25 +0000

Ajith, One more great post.

I would like google to have a feature in WebMasters where you can actually suggest them to add so on so link to Site Links. Instead they pick randomly…

What do you think?

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:28:20 +0000

Google has a really random way of assigning sitelinks, mine are not at all the core posts or pages. Moreover those pages are no the ones that get traffic either. Doesn’t really help in branding.

By: Surender Sharma

Surender Sharma — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:30:27 +0000

But it is depend upon the web owners whether he likes or not.
For me site links are best.

By: Raju

Raju — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:09:39 +0000

I completely agree with you here. Sitelinks is still a mystery for most webmasters. It picks up some weird anchor texts from posts which have hardly got any traffic.

By: IndianCashMaker

IndianCashMaker — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:07:16 +0000

sitelinks is an awesome feature of Google..i wonder when will my blog get sitelinks….

By: Pavan Kumar

Pavan Kumar — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:45:50 +0000

I have been observing strange developments in sitelinks. When I was new to blogging, sitelinks used to appear only for first result. Then started site based search feature added below sitelinks for high authority sites. Later on they introduced single line sitelinks for comparatively low authority sites / pages. Now I see sitelinks appear even for non 1st result on SERP, and single line sitelinks appear even on following result pages.

I have also observed sites which have got sitelinks for single page. Like wikipedia and all, the internal page navigation links (anchors like top, bottom, history, links which stay in a single page etc).

Google should concentrate on providing sitelinks in a faster way when we block a link on wm tools.

By: BlogrPro

BlogrPro — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:25:14 +0000

Yes. Sometimes Google is showing unwanted pages in sitelinks.

By: Divyun @ Webmasters blog

Divyun @ Webmasters blog — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:54:19 +0000

I think sitelinks is a wonderful feature which gives more exposure to a relevant site. I suppose when a site has more than one reference to a keyword then that’s when these appear.
eg. When I search for “divyun.com” it results with my site at the top with the sitelinks because it has lots of reference to divyun.com. lol