Google Sitelinks Explained| Google Sitelinks Explained. Google search results often displays website’s that have Sitelinks. For those reading that are unaware of Sitelinks, we will show you what they are and how you can optimise your website so that Google is capable of adding Sitelinks to your own website listing. We will also show you what can be done if you find that Google is displaying wrong Sitelinks. Question: What are Sitelinks? Answer: If you go to Google's homepage and perform a search you may notice that Google sometimes shows links below the website listing, these links are known as Sitelinks.  Question: What is the purpose of Sitelinks? Answer: Sitelinks are generated by Google to help users find useful pages of your website. Question: Can I choose my own Sitelinks? Answer: No, Sitelinks are randomly chosen by Google. Question: What can be done to get Google to assign Sitelinks to my website? Answer: Google shows Sitelinks on high ranking websites. Make sure that your website has high search engine rankings and use clear anchor text links and alt text on your homepage to your important pages within your site. Google tends to assign Sitelinks to pages that are often linked too or visited. Question: How can I check if Google has given my website Sitelinks? Answer: Go to Google Webmaster tools and add your website, its free and only takes a few minutes to add and verify your website. (You may need FTP access to complete this) Once you have added your website you will need to give Google time to crawl your site. Login to Webmaster Tools, click on your website URL, you will see a link “Site Configuration”. You will find a link to “Sitelinks”. If Google has assigned Sitelinks to your site it will be displayed.  Question: If have found that Google has assigned a Sitelink to a page that I don’t want displaying, what can I do to get it removed? Answer: Google uses algorithms to choose which Sitelinks to display, if Google assigned Sitelinks that you don’t want you can block it in Webmaster Tools. Blocked Sitelinks will be removed for 90 days, if you want to stop Google from ever assigning Sitelinks to a removed page, you might want to block Google from that page by using a robot text file. Be careful when blocking Sitelinks, Google will only show Sitelinks on websites that have a minimum of three Sitelinks. |
