I just noticed that one of my sites is sitelinked(this is where in google search the link has like 8 links attached that shows a category of internal links of a site. Example: Wikipedia) This really helps your traffic come in but I'm curious. How does google choose for a site to be sitelinked and how popular does the site have to be?
Simple: Build trust to rank high by obtaining quality backlinks, and focus on the inner linking structure within your own site then get (external) deep links to the main categories. BTW, It could be showed as a smaller version of (4) links only.. not necessary (8) based on the site total indexed pages and linking structure The most important part is to get those site-links to show under your domain for some popular keywords that people are really searching for, which will eventually increase the over-all percentage of CTR on your listings within the SERP's - Specially if it's ranking first #1
One of my sites got such 'site links' three years ago. The site has a long history of 9 years and got massive amount of links in this period - 30.000+. Plus, regular and original content updates. I believe, these are the ingredients for the site links appearance.
I have 8 sitelinks for my home page. But, interestingly, they only come up in the SERPs when my domain name is included in the search. They don't come up with other keywords for which I rank #1, only the domain name. I'm not sure of the reasons why I have the sitelinks. FWIW, the site (sig link #2) receives about 85,000 unique visitors a month and is five years old. It has about 4,000 backlinks to it.
I think age is a factor too but I think the main factor is the authoritativeness of the site even if it is around 6 months old...
i am having sites under 100K alexa rank usually gets sitelink from google. But make sure you submitted ur site to google webmaster
Site links are applied to sites which are considered to be a branded trustworthy sites. There are many ways to go into this category, but the major ones: unique regular content, quality links and age, age, age, age.
Age is not an important factor. Last year I've registered a whole new domain (never registered) and built-up a great site keeping inner linking in mind... with no much work on off-page seo ex: link building (deep or not) and I've got site-links for this domain on the next month or 40 days
I think it has a lot to do with a Quality Score type algorithm where it takes into account your url, domain name, your anchor text back links and what they search. You can be an authority but not get a sitewide link appear for a generic phrase, but you will most likely get it to appear for your domain name, as that factors in heavily with sitewide links in my experience. I've had some generic phrases, but they haven't stuck around.
Thats quite a useful data you provided. Can you help me to understand your inner linking strategy used?
It all depends how the structure of your site is and if Google sees it necessary to have site links. A good way to get site links is to have a good link structure and to submit a sitemap.
I really Agree with patricianian, Domain age not do any effect on your backlink.Recently i got one domain and with in one week I got 150 back links to it.also my domain is in the top search list for my specific keyword. I think internal linking strategy also help you in this reg
Are you sure that you understand what people are talking about in this topic? Most of the experienced SEO people here are doing this as a first step in their site optimization. But, only a minor part of them gets site links. So its not THE recipe.
I've had sitelinks on various websites over the years. What's the fastest way to get sitelinks? The fastest I ever managed to get sitelinks was when I ran a Google Adwords campaign. I think it depends also on people searching for your site. For example, if you're site is called "My Blog Site" at myblogsite dot com and people use that search phrase frequently, you're more likely to get sitelinks. You also have to usually rank #1 for that search phrase of course. It can be easier to get sitelinks if you have a less competitive website name /domain. Example if your blog is called "make money online" at make-money-online.com or whatever, you can forget about getting sitelinks. There's no way you're going to rank number one on Google for the search phrase "make money online." I can tell you this, it has nothing to do with how frequently you update content. I've had sitelinks on a number of static websites in the past. There's tons of company sites that don't have blogs attached or frequent content updates that get sitelinks. From my experience, obviously sitemmaps are great, but they have little to do with getting sitelinks. It can take time to get sitelinks as well.
Oh, I agree with those that it depends on quality back links. I've even seen blogspot hosted sites that have site links. If you google "Black dog hates skunks" you will find a blogspot hosted site with 8 sitelinks. One "red paper clip" is another blogspot hosted site with sitelinks. It's really hard to get sitelinks on a blogspot hosted site.
Not always. Examples: here and here. I'd agree with zurpit on this one. But I would add that as well as having a good link structure, consistent anchor text throughout the site is also important. Some people mix up the anchor text in their sites internal links to try and target a wider variety of keywords, I think that may make it harder for Google to assign a sitelink to the page. Here's an interesting read about sitelinks, especially the comments by "Taree Internet" Cheers James
Informative Green added to both. I have only one website got sitelinks (8) along with many of them I already built. It does has full sitelinks (8) for both its own domain name and some certain keyword, plus small sitelinks (4) for some group of keywords as well. My own conclusion is, you need both good internal linking structure and quality backlinks. This is not about the quantity but only quality. I have seen some website got its own sitelinks (8) with a small pond of links but worth enough to be considered authority status from Google perspective. There are a lot of websites come with a very good internal linking structure but rarely of them has even sitelinks for its own name. You have to built quality backlinks and "keep it". In my opinion, link age is also matter. How long your backlinks staying "may be" considered by search engine (Google) to give more weights on those link somehow.
im just so happy about one of my websites that got sitelinks which is thefacebookers.com .. if you google "the facebookers" you will find them thats just nice.. and my approved tip for getting sitelinks is getting a good amount of traffic from google.. and if u have a specific page on ur website or a post that gets many hits from google ... it will surely get listed within your website sitelinks hope i helped