Rajesh asked me this question - How does some sites manage to get their pages listed beneath the snippets in Google search? They appear in groups and all the pages/navigation structure appears there. I can’t get my blogs pages appear near the snippets.

Rajesh is talking about Google Sitelinks (See screenshot).

Sitelinks are the group of links to the pages or navigation links in your blog/site that appear right beneath the snippets, or site description text during a google search.

As you might have noticed already, sitelinks appear only for certain sites and not everybody gets the privilege to show them. It appears for almost all high traffic sites and authority sites.

To answer Rajesh’s question, there is nothing at the moment we can do to make the sitelinks appear for your site.

Meaning, Google says it’s completely automated. That is information like, which sites are eligible to show sitelinks, how many sitelinks are to be shown, which are the pages that should appear at the sitelinks, are decided by the google site crawlers and there is very little a webmaster or SEO can do regarding it. Read Google’s theory here.

Okay so as usual, Google speaks from it’s own perspective with no or less help to webmasters. But from our observations, we can make calculated guesses though, can’t we? Here’s what I found.

• Only websites with huge traffic seem to have been displaying sitelinks.
• The links listed in a sitelink are mostly the most-viewed pages in a site.
• The links are mostly a copy of the links in the site’s navigation structure.
• In sites that have sitelinks, the category pages or the navigation structure is universal or repeated many times, this may be a criteria for Google to understand that these links help reduce the user’s navigation time.

As Google says in it’s explanation, their algorithms pick up short-cuts that will help reduce user’s time in finding pages on a site. This could be a pointer to the navigation structure. But you can’t completely rely on this information.

If you take Yahoo! for example, in the sitelinks that were shown to me, I got the following links (see screenshot).
Mail - The best web-based email! My Yahoo! Finance Games Radio Sports and Movies.

So clearly, all the links in the navigation menu are not included in the sitelinks but yes, the one’s that are shown clearly are the ones that either have the maximum page views or are the most popular ones.

So that could be one pointer to us - The pages/links in the navigation menu with the maximum clicks or page views will be picked by Google to include in the site links. But again, this is only an assumption and a calculated guess.

As of now, Google does not give us any information on how to add sitelinks to our sites, to help searchers find more information from your sites. I’m unaware if this is a “premium feature” available to some sites, but Google does take feedback from you on this. That is if you have sitelinks appearing for your website, and it is wrong the way it is shown right now, you can let google know of this and get it corrected. See how to do it here.

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With the new Google PR updates, I thought this might be the right time to go for the site redesign I’ve been planning for quite some time. So here it is!

Daily SEO blog will now sport a new look. The new theme highlights content along with advertising options which was limited in the earlier design from Scott. It was an excellent theme with highly semantic coding and cross browser compatibilities. But the advertising real estate options were limited in it.

This theme is a free one called Green Wave 1.0 from Romow. I hope it runs smoothly, if at all you come across anything worth noting, please do let me know.

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My friend Aseem seem to have reserved a great batch of sought after domain names to himself and would like to sell them off. While I don’t think that .info domains are the best choice when considering your website, the in availability of top level domains leave you with no choice but select the next available options. .info domains are cheap and many sought after keywords are available on it as well. And Aseem have quite some great ones with him. If anyone would like to buy one of these, please let him know. Here are the list of domains.

WEBMASTER RELATED DOMAINS
GUIDETOSEO.INFO
SEOTUTS.INFO
CHEAPSEOSOLUTIONS.INFO
ADSENSETIPSANDTRICKS.INFO
ETUTORIALS.INFO
TEMPLATESCATALOG.INFO
THEWEBDESIGNBLOG.INFO
EARNMONEYONTHENET.INFO

TECH RELATED DOMAINS
TECHNOLOUNGE.INFO
TECHSQUARE.INFO
BROADBANDMONITOR.INFO
LAPTOPREVIEWER.INFO
CELLTOUCH.INFO
GADGETCENTER.INFO

GAMES RELATED DOMAINS
GAMESFREAK.INFO
GAMERSARCADE.INFO

ENTERTAINMENT RELATED DOMAINS
SEXY-LINDSAY.INFO
HOTKATRINAKAIF.INFO
HOTPARISHILTON.INFO
URVASHI-SHARMA.INFO
SEXYINDIANMODELS.INFO
INDIANREALITYTV.INFO
HEROESTVSERIES.INFO
OURBOLLYWOOD.INFO
HINDIMOVIETRAILERS.INFO
YASHRAJMOVIES.INFO
HOTHOLLYWOODPICS.INFO

HUMOUR RELATED DOMAINS
VERYFUNNYADS.INFO
FUNNY-VIDS.INFO
LAUGHWITHJOKES.INFO

ANIMALS RELATED DOMAINS
THEAQUAWORLD.INFO
CATLOVERZ.INFO
DOGLOVERZ.INFO
BIRDPICS.INFO

SPORTS RELATED DOMAINS
FORMULA1TRACKS.INFO
SOCCERSHOUT.INFO
CRICKETNEXT.INFO
TENNISNEXT.INFO
TENDULKARS.INFO
INDIANCRICKETSTARS.INFO
GOLFCLUBBERS.INFO

HEALTH RELATED DOMAINS
TIPS4URHEALTH.INFO
DENTAL-BLOG.INFO
PLANYOURDIET.INFO
BUILDURBODY.INFO
HAIRISSUES.INFO
CURETODISEASES.INFO
SKINCAREDOC.INFO
YOURGUIDETOSEX.INFO
SEXHEALTHTIPS.INFO

PARENTING RELATED DOMAINS
PARENTINGEXPERT.INFO
GUIDEFORMOMS.INFO

AUTO RELATED DOMAINS
CARACER.INFO
BIKERSLOUNGE.INFO

HOME AND LIFESTYLE RELATED DOMAINS
STYLENFASHION.INFO
STYLEME.INFO
WOMENSMAG.INFO
BEAUTYASSETS.INFO
WEDTODAY.INFO

FOOD RELATED DOMAINS
FOODMANIA.INFO
FOODRECIPESLIST.INFO

TRAVEL RELATED DOMAINS
WORLDSBESTBEACHES.INFO
HOTELLISTER.INFO
INDIATRAVELBLOG.INFO
UKTOURISTSPOTS.INFO
WORLDTOURISTSPOTS.INFO

FINANCE RELATED DOMAINS
HOTREALESTATES.INFO
REALESTATEGYAAN.INFO
MANAGEYOURWEALTH.INFO
STOCKX.INFO
MAXINSURANCE.INFO
LOANLISTER.INFO
MBAJUNCTION.INFO

BOOKS RELATED DOMAINS
AUTHORSCLUB.INFO
INDIANWRITERS.INFO
INDIANBOOKREVIEWS.INFO
BOOKSCORNER.INFO
COMICSCOLLECTION.INFO

EDUCATION RELATED DOMAINS
JOBLISTER.INFO
TOPCAREERS4U.INFO
TOPJOBS4U.INFO
BELLTHECAT.INFO
PLACEMENT-PAPERS.INFO
ELECTRONICS4U.INFO
PERSONALITYDEV.INFO

LOVE AND DATING RELATED DOMAINS
LOVEANDDATING.INFO
DATINGMANTRA.INFO

HOBBIES RELATED DOMAINS
PHOTOGRAPHYTRICKS.INFO
RIDDLESANDPUZZLES.INFO
HOBBYTIME.INFO

TEENS RELATED DOMAINS
TEENACHE.INFO
JUSTFORTEENS.INFO

MISCELLANEOUS DOMAINS
BLOGGERSPORTAL.INFO
SCIENCEFUNDAS.INFO
ORKUTTING.INFO
DOWNLOADFREESTUFF.INFO
VIDEOZSITE.INFO
ENGLISHSONGLYRICS.INFO
INDIANPAD.INFO
ASTROPREDICTIONS.INFO

Quite a good list isn’t it? If you need one, contact Aseem at webincarno (a) gmail (dot) com

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Just noticed that DailySEOblog is ”awarded” Page Rank 4 !

And, I still strongly stick to my words.

I just don’t give a damn about it.  Eat that Google! (Courtesy-JC)

Interestingly, there seems to be shuffling again all over the web. Here is the old list from DBT with the updated changes. Seen in green are the ones that managed to hit back and seen in red are the one’s gone further down.

• Statcounter (from 10 to 6)
• Engadget (from 7 to 5)
• AutoBlog (from 6 to 4)
• Problogger (from 4 to 6)
• Copyblogger (from 4 to 6)
• AdesBlog (from 7 to 5)
• Search Engine Journal (from 7 to 4)
• Quick Online Tips (from 6 to 3)
• Search Engine Roundtable (from 7 to 4)
• Blog Herald (from 6 to 4)
• Weblog Tools Collection (from 6 to 4)
• JohnTP (from 4 to 3)
• Coolest Gadgets (from 3 to 4)
• CyberNet News (from 4 to 1)
• Washington Post (from 7 to 5)
• Washington Times (from 6 to 4)
• Charlotte Observer (from 6 to 4)
• Forbes.com (from 7 to 5)
• SFGate.com (from 7 to 5)
• Sun Times (from 7 to 5)
• New Scientist (from 7 to 5)
• Seattle Times (from 6 to 4)

New entries - Bloggingtips.com (0 to 4) and DailySEOblog.com (0 to 4)

So, it’s regret time for Google? Seems like they have taken off the penalty on some websites like Problogger and Copyblogger, while maintaining it for some, and even further degrading on a few like John TP.

Is this the end or is there another shuffling going to happen? 

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The Indian blogging arena is on a high these days.In about an year there have been huge increase in the number of technology related bloggers in India. There are students, professionals and learners actively blogging on their respective fields of interest. Many of them also make decent amount of money online. I thought, with the new PR update happening, it’s time we rank some of the popular ones based on some common metrics like traffic. I hope you find it interesting.

According to traffic rankings, here are the top ten super stars.

1. Blog: Clazh -  Author: Arpit Jacob, Chennai
2. Blog: Technospot - Author: Ashish Mohta
3. Blog: Life Rocks - Author: Nirmal T V, Kerala
4. Blog: Online Tech Tips - Author: Aseem Kishore, US
5. Blog: Shankar Ganesh - Author: Shankar Ganesh, Chennai
6. Blog: Think Abdul - Author: Abdul Azeez
7. Blog: Freakitude - Author: Lovedeep Wadhwa
8. Blog: Jsbi - Author:Jason S
9. Blog: Madhur - Author: Madhur Kapoor
10. Blog: Rishi Raj - Author: Rishi Raj 

Professional bloggers like Amit Agarwal have set example to many young bloggers in India, and as I understand from talks with these bloggers, a good amount of them have been inspired from Amit. So he deserves a special applause.

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