If you have SITELINKS showing in Webmaster tools...

I doubt that will play a major factor in sitelink production, as some of the 'sitelink titles' i've been assigned won't get much traffic at all.

I'm sure I read somewhere about the sitelinks only being assigned if, over the majority of datacenters, you top the SERP's for that result. Although I can't see that being true as for some of my sitelink titles I'm not top, but perhaps second or third.

 

1. 1.5 years
2. 4
3. 5
4. Yes, If YES, #1,#1, #4, Not top 100, #1. Yes
5. 29,000

Try searching for "popular polls"

 

what factors does sitelinks depend on?

 

1. Dec 2006
2. Pr 6
3. 7 sitelinks
4. Not showing up
5. 68000 backLinks.

 

I wonder if we should include an item 6. Do you have a sitemap?

 

My site where the sitelinks are showing in the SERPS does not have a sitemap. Really it has no particular distinguishing features!

Not many links with that particular anchor text, not very high PR, not an especially clear navigation system, not a huge number of inbound links, the exact term is not in the title of the page OR the body of the page (it is in the description, and the terms appear independently on the page, of course)...

I suspect whether they show or not is perhaps partly related to competition for the search term - the term where I do see the sitelinks I think I would outrank the other sites shown by quite a large margin.

Or maybe the answer is in the grey areas that only google know about, such as what visitors look at when they visit the site, how long they spend on pages of the site, etc...

 

I get the feeling that every site of certain age gets sitelinks. The crunch would be to find out when/why they get activated.

 

Thought I'd share:

1. age of site - 2 years
2. Page Rank - 4
3. Number of sitelinks - 5
4. Have you actually seen them in SERPS? - no
5. Number of Google links AS REPORTED IN WEBMASTER TOOLS - 555

1. age of site - 5 years
2. Page Rank - 4
3. Number of sitelinks - 5
4. Have you actually seen them in SERPS? - yes
5. Number of Google links AS REPORTED IN WEBMASTER TOOLS - 7000

 

Will people who have seen the sitelinks in serps please provide us with some more information on the keywords they used? it would be really usefull to know the number of words in the phrase and how competative (or not as the case may be) the phrase is.

 

sitelinks only appear for company name search for me

 

I have sitelinks in webmasters tools. They have been there about a month now. However, like many others, I could never see them appearing in the serps - even when doing a search for my sites name.

However, this morning, I thought I would try a search again on Google, but using firefox instead of IE. Well guess, what ....

all my site links are appearing fine when using Firefox, but when using IE, there are not there. I have tested this with several sites for which I have Google sitelinks, and whenever searching on Google.com using Firefox, I can see all the sitelinks for my various sites, but when using IE, I can't see anything.

IE Results -
FF Results -

Can someone else who has sitelink in their webmasters account, do a search on Google using firefox instead of IE and see what happens and if they display.

Alex

 

I just searched for 'around Greece' on Google.co.uk, using Firefox, and only got your homepage and one indented link. My site always gets 1 indented link nowadays, but the indented link is always 1 out of 4 of my total 8 sitelinks shown in WMT. It's strange.

Does anyone have sitelinks with a PR less than 3?

 

I think that so far...none of you guys has come up with any possible reason why sitelinks are displayed in the WC but not SERPS....I dont know either...maybe as Matt??

 

Mine show in both IE and FF and I can't imagine why there would be a difference between the two - I can't imagine google give different search results according to your browser! Different data centres perhaps? Or 'personalised search' on one, not the other?

By the way, mine DON'T show for my site name...

 

I have had another thought about the sitelink production.

Does anybody have sitelinks showing in WMT that does not have PageRank? All my sitelinks shown are PR2. The homepage is currently PR3. Pages I would normally expect to be shown - such as sitewide links on my site - which don't have PageRank, aren't shown. Perhaps PR does have something to do with it, or at least contribute to the sitelink factor.

 

my site is PR5 as stated int he first post. It does NOT show sitelinks in IE or FF. Alex, can you please keep trying and see if you get a consistent result? Is there anything else you have done lately that might have effected the results?

EDIT: I have just tried 'around greece' in FF and i am not seeing sitelinks. Strange.

 

Why has this thread been moved from the Google forum? It has nothing to do with Site review SEO. Sitelinks is a Google specific issue. How do i contact a moderator to find out?

 

I think this must be different datacenters thats all.

 

same results for me.

 

My main site is PR3. It has sitelinks in WMT but not in actual serp listings. I also have a PR4 site with 24000+backlinks which I recently bought, it doesn't have any sitelinks in WMT but does show 4 sitelinks in SERPs - strange?!

Sitelinks supposedly have something to do with your normal position for the sitelink title. For instance, I imagine one of your sitelink titles would be 'Garden Furniture' as you are normally number 1 in Google for that term []. It is also speculated that your sitelink is based on: position of the keyword and the search volume of the keyword. Hence why I would assume that the reason your sitelinks aren't showing in SERPs is because for other 'big keyword searches' you do not show up high enough in the SERPs.

I think I'll take onboard my own ideas and thoughts and try encorporate that in my link building strategy - however, I don't think I'll be seeing a Garden Furniture sitelink soon, I'm tucked away on the 3rd page