SEO Gurus - How do I do this...

[abostonboy]

http://www.google.com/search?q=racketboy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Look at racketboy - He has pages listed other than the homepage. How?

[gaydemon_jr]

Google does that automatically. They call it 'Sitelinks'. You can't do anything to influence it. They just do it based on their calculations.


Sitelinks are additional links Google sometimes generates from site contents in order to help users navigate your site. Google generates these sitelinks periodically from your site's contents.

Sitelinks are completely automated, and we show them only if we think they'll be useful to the user. If your site's structure doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks are relevant to the user's query, we won't show them. However, we are always working to improve how we find and display sitelinks.

That was taken from the Sitelinks section under Google Webmaster Tools.

[rawTOP]

GayDemon Jr is right. All I'd add is that the only influence you have over them is the ability to remove particular ones after they show up. As far as I know there's no way to get them to list them for you.

Looking at the ones they list for one of my non-porn sites, it's definitely an automated process. It seems to be a combination of 1) picking common important areas like "Register", 2) picking links off the main page that match frequent search terms, and 3) picking pages they think are otherwise important on your site.

I used to think there was probably some manual review (Google has a team of thousands that grades and ranks web sites), but just noticing that they listed "ADV" as one of the sitelinks for my site when the link text was "ADV SEARCH" - that's a typically "automated" mistake an English speaking person would never make. They'd choose "SEARCH"... Truly weird they'd choose ADV over SEARCH since "Search" is a term their "logic" should know is important in sitelinks...

[pocoloco]

From my own experience, Google picks up and list sitelinks way faster when you use subdomains.

ie: vod.yoursitename.com or archive.yoursitename.com

I am not 100% sure, but it does look like subdomains are much more listed, rather then just folders.

[dzinerbear]

I've done a little testing with this and it appears that if you search for "gay demon" then you'll be presented with the sitelinks, if they already exist for that site. But if you search for a keyword phrase that Gay Demon ranks for, you'll just be presented with Gay Demon without the sitelinks.

Michael

[gaydemon]

Thats correct, there is nothing you can do to make that happen. Things like organizing your site structure probably does help. If you build your site in a logical way, using folders etc and your site is large enough you should get such a listing.

Smaller sites or site names that are just created for SEO are unlikly to get such a listing by Google. You will also only really see it if you do a search for a site name or something that is close to a site name.

For example "gay demon" or "gaydemon", google sees that word(s) as "belonging" to gaydemon.com. IE the user is searching for that specific site.




Google does that automatically. They call it 'Sitelinks'. You can't do anything to influence it. They just do it based on their calculations.



That was taken from the Sitelinks section under Google Webmaster Tools.

[NaughtyStud]

From my own experience, Google picks up and list sitelinks way faster when you use subdomains.

ie: vod.yoursitename.com or archive.yoursitename.com

I am not 100% sure, but it does look like subdomains are much more listed, rather then just folders.

That is interesting to know.I have always just used folders for stuff like toplist's , galleries etc.I may have to start doing this with some of them.I have never really messed around with sub-domains and wondered if there were any avantages to them.Thanks for the info ;)

[rawTOP]

There are HUGE disadvantages to using subdomains that sitelinks don't start to compensate for... Basically every subdomain is considered a separate site that has to go through a sandbox period. It's no better than using separate domains. Rand Fishkin wrote an excellent post on it last year (which I can't find at the moment).

Folders are definitely the way to go overall for maximum SEO results.

[Gaystoryman]

There are HUGE disadvantages to using subdomains that sitelinks don't start to compensate for... Basically every subdomain is considered a separate site that has to go through a sandbox period. It's no better than using separate domains. Rand Fishkin wrote an excellent post on it last year (which I can't find at the moment).

Folders are definitely the way to go overall for maximum SEO results.

Agree totally, plus if I recall there was also an issue with sub domains and cross linking that simply made things dicey. :rolleyes: