Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'sitelinks'

A WebmasterWorld thread reports that someone is noticing that his site's Sitelinks in Google are pointing to a different site. I am not sure how that is possible. How can Google link a Sitelink for one site to a different...

Posted on November 17, 2009 8:47 AM

Back in August, Google began testing Sitelinks for AdWords, now it is official. The Google AdWords blog announced it last night, telling us this is a feature specifically designed to provide "users with more options, you can create richer, more...

Posted on November 4, 2009 8:41 AM

A Google Webmaster Help thread informs us that Google can take about two weeks to remove a blocked Sitelink from showing up in the search results. Google's JohnMu said: A change like this can take two weeks or a bit...

Posted on October 29, 2009 8:56 AM

I know Google has been showing many variations of sitelinks in the search results for a while now. I also know, Google began showing Sitelinks for specific sub domains and sub directories for about a year now. But I have...

Posted on October 26, 2009 8:33 AM

Last night, the official Google Blog announced that they are now showing Forum Sitelinks. This is a special form of Sitelinks, which I previously named deep(er) Sitelinks. Here is a picture: It is incredibly useful with blogs, forums and any...

Posted on October 1, 2009 8:44 AM

I have been getting emails, Twitter messages and seeing threads that more and more people are seeing this newish kind of Sitelink. It isn't brand new, it has been around for some time now, but it is 100% showing up...

Posted on September 24, 2009 8:36 AM

Remember a few weeks ago Google started with anchor based Sitelinks for specific sites? Well, now it seems like Google is trying to put these types of links directly in the search engine snippet (i.e. the description in the search...

Posted on September 11, 2009 8:25 AM

A continuously updated WebmasterWorld thread has discussion about penalties, new sitelinks and more. WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, summed up what he is seeing in this thread and others. There are two main things going on: (1) Sites that have been ranking...

Posted on August 28, 2009 8:48 AM

My old time buddy, Darrin Ward (founder of SEOChat back in the day), blogged about noticing Sitelinks in the Google AdWords ads. Here is a picture, which I can see myself, for a search on staples.com. Notice the four links...

Posted on August 26, 2009 8:51 AM

Over a week ago, a WebmasterWorld thread reported that Google was testing a new form of Sitelinks. These sitelinks didn't link to different URLs, but instead, linked to the same URL but with anchors (i.e. # signs at the end...

Posted on August 25, 2009 8:56 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread pointed out a very interesting observation in Google. A search for WebmasterWorld in Google shows Sitelinks for the site. But one of those Sitelinks seem to be cut off, the one with the "Google" in front of...

Posted on August 10, 2009 8:39 AM

Google has confirmed last week that they are officially bring "one-line sitelinks" to the Google search results. In early March rumors of these Sitelinks were spotted first in the UK region. Then the tests of the classic sitelinks continued and...

Posted on April 20, 2009 9:09 AM

Google has been testing showing classic (one line) Sitelinks in the search results for a while now. The one line Sitelinks are interesting in that they seem to differ some from the Sitelinks we are typically accustomed to. Melanie Phung...

Posted on April 15, 2009 7:12 AM

About a month ago, we reported Google was testing classic Sitelinks, i.e. one line Sitelinks. Well, now it seems like we can reproduce the single line Sitelinks. A Google Webmasters Help thread shows how two different queries return different types...

Posted on April 2, 2009 8:15 AM

I posted a search brief on this topic at Search Engine Land, when I saw Search Engine War noticing Google UK testing single line Sitelinks. But it seems like more folks in the UK are noticing the "classic" Sitelinks showing...

Posted on March 6, 2009 8:14 AM

The first week of January, when we wrote about the Major Google Search Results Changes, January 2009, I noticed the Google Sitelinks for this site, disappeared. Today, I noticed they are back. Today, also, many webmasters are noticing they have...

Posted on January 16, 2009 8:09 AM

I am a huge fan of Google Sitelinks for a lot of reasons. But what do you do when the Sitelinks Google is displaying for your site is wrong? The manage Sitelinks feature doesn't give you too many options, outside...

Posted on December 16, 2008 7:55 AM

As Googler, Matt Cutts Twittered, he now has Sitelinks under his domain for a search on [matt cutts]. Why did it take Matt over two years to get Sitelinks for his domain when it is such an authoritative source? The...

Posted on November 17, 2008 7:36 AM

In Google Webmaster Tools, you can disable your Google Sitelinks from showing up in the Google search results. But according to a Google Groups thread, it doesn't work. Personally, I don't know anyone who doesn't want Sitelinks to show up...

Posted on November 12, 2008 8:51 AM

A question I hear a lot is why don't the Sitelinks I see in a Google search result, match what I see when I login to Google Webmaster Tools? For example, here are the Sitelinks I see for a search...

Posted on September 9, 2008 7:40 AM

Eric Enge interviewed Googler Maile Ohye relatively recently and provided an interesting summary of the interview on his blog. In the interview, Maile talks about the WebmasterTools API (especially with regards to extracting link data), using sitemaps for discovery, spam...

Posted on August 26, 2008 9:02 AM

An updated WebmasterWorld thread notes that Google has appeared to add a time stamp value to the last date Google updated your Google Sitelinks. The time stamp can be found by logging into your Google Webmaster Tools, clicking on "Links"...

Posted on July 25, 2008 8:02 AM

A supporters-only WebmasterWorld thread (and now a standard WebmasterWorld thread) have discussion around the new look of Yahoo's Quick Links. Yahoo's Quick Links, which we first reported on back in 2005, and then again a year ago - is basically...

Posted on July 21, 2008 7:37 AM

Google's sitelinks, which we have covered extensively are the little links you see under a search result in Google, typically between 4 and 8 sub-links. Here is a picture of our Sitelinks: A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion about the importance...

Posted on July 10, 2008 7:49 AM

WebmasterWorld members are talking about receiving Google Sitelinks, and overall, most forum members who are impacted this way are obviously happy about the expanded link opportunities. Some are a bit afraid that their sitelinks may drop off (as a few...

Posted on April 28, 2008 9:58 AM

A Google Groups thread has discussion about one webmaster that sees Sitelinks for his site in position 60. The search is for vacation realty and in the 60th position. While, I do not see the Sitelinks at that position, the...

Posted on April 24, 2008 8:29 AM

It looks like Google Sitelinks have had a update, and now mine look a lot better than they were previously. Here are my new sitelinks: Whereas before during the March update that added sitelinks to my domain just didn't look...

Posted on April 16, 2008 11:22 AM

There are many reports via DigitalPoint Forums that Google has added the Sitelinks feature to many new sites. Tamar even mentioned to me yesterday that a search on tamar weinberg now returns Sitelinks for her site. The last Google Sitelinks...

Posted on March 27, 2008 8:08 AM

There are a bunch of reports that Google has completed a Sitelinks update. More sites that never had these links, now have them. Again, the links below a search results are called Sitelinks. Many sites have 8, but you can...

Posted on February 22, 2008 7:38 AM

Many of you probably already know that Microsoft's Live Search has been displaying "Sitelinks" under the first search result for some queries for a while now. In fact, they have been doing this since the Microsoft Searchification Day 2007 in...

Posted on February 20, 2008 7:42 AM

Last Wednesday we reported many people noticing that Google was showing them more Sitelinks in Webmaster Tools. Now, it appears that people are reporting via a DigitalPoint Forums thread that those Sitelinks are appearing in the search results. I decided...

Posted on December 24, 2007 7:07 AM

Reports are coming from WebmasterWorld and DigitalPoint Forums that more sites are obtaining those much sought after Google Sitelinks. Now that you can get up to 8 Sitelinks for your listing, people simply want them. My web development company now...

Posted on December 19, 2007 7:03 AM

WebmasterWorld administrator tedster has informed us that Google will be treating subdomains like they treat folders on a site. In short, he said, Matt Cutts said Google will roll out in a few weeks a new filter to make sure...

Posted on December 7, 2007 7:40 AM

Gabs reported Google has done a Sitelinks update. He is indeed correct. The first Sitelinks update was in February 2007 and then we had a new recent one where Google expanded them to 8 sitelinks per result. Here is the...

Posted on November 29, 2007 2:56 PM

If you block a sitelink using the new tool in Webmaster Tools, can you still use up the maximum number of sitelinks allocated to you in the search results? The answer to this is no. In short, if you have...

Posted on November 9, 2007 8:54 AM

Forum members have spotted that the Google Webmaster Central has been updated with some new functionality. The Webmaster Central team has confirmed this and outlines the additions in detail: Up to 6 months of historical data. Percentages of the top...

Posted on October 19, 2007 10:06 AM

Yesterday, I got confirmation that Google is now showing up to 8 Sitelinks for a search result. I tried to find real examples of this in action, and finally found something that works on my computer. A search for search...

Posted on October 19, 2007 7:14 AM

It appears as if on this Friday, Google has done an update on their Sitelinks. Google Sitelinks, first thought to be Web Categories, was officially released back in September 2006. Google has their official doc on sitelinks in their Webmaster...

Posted on February 12, 2007 7:20 AM

We have been covering what I and many others have been calling "Web Categories" for a while now. They look like this in the Google search results pages. They went under several revisions, but this is the look that seems...

Posted on September 8, 2006 6:59 AM