I have seen many authority sites with google site links. how are they achieved? Is it by linking structure, a proper sitemap, or? Thanks.
Info taken from -> http://www.davechaffey.com/SEO-Best-Practice/Google-Site-Links In the past, this Sitelinks explanation said > more than 10,000 pages were necessary, but Google has adjusted the threshold and I now think it is possible in sites with a few hundred pages and few hundred searches per month. I actually think now it's number of searches. Through reviewing sites with Sitelinks I think we can say the following will increase your chances of algorithmic inclusion of Sitelinks: * Visitor numbers from Google, i.e. Searches above Google's threshold * Possibly number of backlinks above a threshold * Search term (commonly brand term included in URL) - I used to think in title, but it's not for Starbucks.co.uk - which is "Brewing today". * Navigation labels (and title tags of pages) clearly indicate unique content in different sections of site. Image and Javascript menus may prevent this happening.
Also read Google’s Listings of Internal Site Links for Top Search Results by SEO by the Sea http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=406 The following is the conclusion from the link above. It’s interesting, but not terribly surprising, that so much of the generation of these additional links are based upon user-behavior based information. The patent does note that it is only the top result they are showing these additional links for, so to have lists like this appear, it’s helpful to rank pretty well. Beyond being number one, the first step in getting Google to show additional links from your site may be to get lots of traffic to your pages. It’s hard to tell how much is enough, but it has to be enough for them to think that this will be a good user experience for searchers to list those pages. The second may be to have a core group of pages that tend to get visited more than other pages of the site - the only reason to list pages like this is if you are helping make it easier for searchers find what they may be looking for. When someone visits the wordpress site, there is a small identifiable core group of things that they may want to do once there. When they visit the front page of Wikipedia or Digg, they may be interested in any number of pages. When you do a search for wordpress, you’ll see a list of links to additional pages under the wordpress site. When you search for Digg or Wikipedia, you don’t. (Both do have second indented results, which are relevant for the search term, with a link for “more results from†those sites - but that’s not the same thing.)
Sitelinks are generated for a site by the google dynamically and it may change from time to time and it is the prerogative of the google whether to create a sitelink or not for a particular site. Popular and established sites are chosen for creation of sitelinks...
I have sitelinks on a few of my sites and what I find most frustrating about them is the actual links Google chooses to display.... I am continually in Google Webmaster tools denying sitelinks - eventually the ones that should be on there will be!
as Google said : Google has not generated any sitelinks for your site. 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. Google decide this not you
google sitelinks comes auto, to get sitelinks need to have good internal linking structure to your website and also keep some links on each page from the content, it will help you...
I have obtained sitelinks on our site. I was number 1 in the SERPs, a total stupid search term, and in a "local search mode" I have not obtained sitelinks yet for anything that is important. And I have not done anything to generate it except have good site structure.