The Biggest Google Sitelink Update Ever
Just done a search on Google and this site has received the Google sitelinks that I have been longing for (yes I am a huge nerd). It looks to have been a big update, the biggest ever in fact and tons of new sites have got them:
Site architecture and age seems to play an important roll in getting sitelinks, very few sites that are less then 6-8 months old have got them.
Here are a few links to help you understand sitelinks:
What are Google Sitelinks – Search Engine Land
Explaining Google Sitelinks – Problogger
Google Sitelinks and Brand Domination – SEOmoz
Congratulations to everybody who has got the sitelinks.
Update: The update is not currently showing up on Google US, so you will have to visit Google UK to see the changes.
Posted in Search Engine News By David Eaves a UK search engine optimisation specialist.
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February 22nd, 2008 22 Comments
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February 22nd, 2008 at 3:41 am
Very Cool!!
I’ve been keeping an eye on it for my eCommerce Website http://www.abchomepreschool.com/ and after reading your postI checked on it. And, there it sat in Google Search with site links. Awesome!!
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:44 am
Congrats Shana!
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:16 am
Cool! But when i try through google.co.uk, i am not getting it,
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=seoco&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
Please check!
Pratheep
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:35 am
what you mean by sitelinks?
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Look at the above screen-shot, you will get the idea. To put in simple words, the llinks that are available at bottom of a result in the SERPs, is sitelinks, usually we have 8 (maxumum) links. We can take control of the links through google webmaster tool.
The sitelinks will help to navigate the website without getting into the website’s page actually.
Pratheep
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
That’s cool. I still haven’t any though.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Hi Pat, it is probably because you only have 3 fixed navigation pages.
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:31 pm
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February 24th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
Maybe but my blog is only 9 months old so it’s still early days.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Yep, could well be down to site age.
February 24th, 2008 at 10:54 pm
Sitelinks are the greatest thing since popcorn and Hollywood movies. If you got them, you have to love it.
February 24th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
LOL – they are very cool.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am
WOW!
I did not know about this.
Keep the good work up!
March 10th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Just got myself some in the latest update aswell.
Site age is definitely a factor. PR (as always) is not such a big deal imo.
It’s interesting to see how Google choses the sitelinks… one of mine in particular is interesting as its low on links (internal & external) but pretty high in traffic terms.
March 12th, 2008 at 2:26 am
Sitelinks is just cool for those who got it.
Congrats David..
Btw google is setting up something for searching through authority sites, check the latest post in my blog.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Congratulations for this! Sitelinks are really so cool and it is awesome that you have 7 of them:) I hope I will achieve that soon!
March 12th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Sitelinks are really important. Exspecially for a site like this one. Good Job.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:29 am
This has been coming up for more and more companies lately, and quite a few of my customers have squeezed in there. I agree that age seems to be a factor as its mostly customers with older domain names that have got in there, and the ones with impeccable navigation – i.e. better than what you can test for in the W3C broken link checker.
Smaller sites stand a much better chance of getting in there since the navigation and broken links issue is less of a problem for these. So even a 4 page site with very few inbounds is in with a good chance. So the sitemap algo defintely works in the favour of the little guy to some extent.
April 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am
Yes…. Age is the one of the major factors in search engines for determining ranks of particular phrases, Especially for Google.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Yeh, just noticed my iPhone Forum in uk got a few of them. It’s around 6 months old but high ranked and well visited site.
November 13th, 2008 at 7:56 am
How did you get those extra links at the bottom of the listing.