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Sitelinks are more common these days. Popular blogs and websites have been awarded Google sitelinks recently. Google’s explanation is that this is a completely automated phenomena and there’s nothing one can do do help the sitelinks appear for his/her site on the Googel SERPs.
Daily SEO blog has a sitelink and there are some random links on it. See screenshot.
Now, what appears on the sitelinks is completely up to to the Google bots to decide. I can’t see a definite pattern on the links appearing on the sitelinks but yes one of the factors that decides it is the “Popular searches”.
I’ve found from my referral codes and content popularity checks on Google that the pages to which Google has placed the sitelinks are the most popular pages on searches from Google.
Example, Upcoming tech bloggers in India is a post whose content has traveled lot in the blogsphere, and was visited most through search engines and other sources (IM, Email etc). It has some backlinks too (acquired quicker and naturally).
So I think for a link to appear on sitelinks (or sitelinks to appear for that matter) the factors Google would consider are,
Now, what is some page crawled up the sitelinks which you does not want to appear on the sitelinks? What can you do to control the links that appear on the sitelinks?
Here’s what you do.
That’s it. So even though you don’t have the access to decide what links appear on the sitelinks, you have the access to decide as to whether they should appear or not.
Related reading on Sitelinks at DailySEOblog Article 1,Article 2,Article 3
Looks like the post you made about me has given you quite some traffic.
Now, don’t i deserve a beer for all that traffic you’ve been getting?
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That was a really useful info Mani.
I should work on that.
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I always wondered if there was a way to do that. THanks! Its too bad that we can’t make suggestions for which links show up there.
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I think the webmaster must be allowed to choose his stielinks and Google can choose to dsiplay them or not, cuz Google is their website.
Maybe they will display the sitelinks only when the site is the first search result. How is that idea Google..?
cheers
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