How do I make my website look like this

Discussion in 'Programming' started by smartblogz, Jan 23, 2014.

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    To the gurus in the house.
    I run a wordpress website and would very much like for it to look like this (see screenshot) when searched for in say google for instance.

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    Just how on earth do I achieve the above.
     
    smartblogz, Jan 23, 2014 IP
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    PoPSiCLe Illustrious Member

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    You can't. Next question, please.
     
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    deathshadow Acclaimed Member

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    Actually you can -- it involves several steps and a lot of patience.

    First if you used semantic markup google will eventually maybe up and decide to do that to the site. A lot of the "stop words" you're told not to use in things like description and keywords are triggers for sections like that to end up shown that way.

    Second, you can speed up how soon that will happen by making a open directory listing for the site.
    http://www.dmoz.org/

    Just beware you have to keep updating your DMOZ record if you make changes to your links or directory structure to keep it up to date.

    Placing a sitemap.xml in the root of your directory CAN also help.

    ... and you could use microformats, microdata or an RDF alternative to create what are called "rich snippets" -- just beware those can really start to waste bandwidth which is why I don't entirely advocate their use except with an eyedropper. (don't go nuts with it)
    https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2712052?hl=en&ref_topic=3331043

    Though a lot of it is just a matter of patience and proper use of semantics. I had a website I ran for ten years (it's gone now) that did that all by itself out of the blue after being up a year and a half.
     
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    OH, BTW, what you are referring to is called "siteLinks"... decent article explaining them here:
    http://www.searchenginejournal.com/3-ways-to-make-your-serp-listing-stand-out/59961/

    As the article says there's no real way to sign up for it, Google just does it for sites they "think is worth it" - using proper semantic markup, providing extra data both on page and off-page increases the odds of them considering you 'worth it'.
     
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    PoPSiCLe Illustrious Member

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    Hence why I stated "you can't" - the chance of Google deciding that a simple Wordpress site is "worthy" of a siteLinks entry is... abysmally low.
     
    PoPSiCLe, Jan 25, 2014 IP
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    I understand that it may be hard was that all you could say? lol. move over ! :cool:

    No harm in trying right? :p
     
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    Thanks for this. I've got loads of patience so what I need to do now is read up more on it. Thanks for pointing me in this direction.
     
    smartblogz, Jan 27, 2014 IP