Results Displaying Sections of the Website

Sometimes while searching on Google, I see some result displayed with extra pages within the website.

For example, if you search for International Business Machines, you get something like
IBM United States
Website for International Business Machines.
www.ibm.com/ - 25k - Jan 4, 2006 - Cached - Similar pages
IBM Support & downloads - IBM Products
IBM Home Page: Select a country ... - Jobs at IBM
More results from www.ibm.com »

Any idea why Google adds the Support page and the home page to the results?

 

Google does this for good/big sites if it can clearly determine different sections of the site.

Nobody seems to know how they choose which sites to do it to though.

 

Thanks Dave!

 

I've been trying to find some kind of reference to how certain results seem to have sublinks to relevant sections directly under the main search result when I try to find them on google, but to no avail... I hope someone here can answer!

When I do a search for for instance "winrar", the first result goes to the rarlabs home page, but also, they have a couple of more links embedded in that search result, "Downloads", "What is a RAR file", "Themes" and "Dealers". Where do these links come from? Can I instruct googles crawlers to do the same for my site? How?

Simply an official name for this feature would probably enable me to find out more on my own, but more information is of course appreciated!

 

I have this questions as well, but I always thought it was pure google stuff. So I think you, being a webmaster, can't directly influence this...

 

I think those special links for High Page Ranked site like PR 8/9 or somthing.

 

Even if you have a high PR, only the first result can have sublinks. I think it must be a representative site for the product you search.

 

I've seen PR5/PR6 websites with the same results.

 

Well, i've seen Pr3 website

It's not for "big websites" only.

It's for the first website, in a certain niche too.

And the 3 to 5 additional URL's shown are auto-picked by a machine, out of all the links in the website's first page. No humans here.

 

I have a site nr 1+2 in SERPs for a keyword and it has PR5. What should I do to have those links?

 

No too sure how but I actually noticed on of my personal sites had the same thing in Google - a couple of different sections.

Does it mean anything for Google / the searches - or is it just there?

 

I think it's just meant to shorten the user experience. A little preview of the most important sections for that website.

 

I was noticing this, too, thinking it would be a good next step once we have secure 1+2 rankings for our main keywords. A quick net search revealed some of Corey's other posts, as well as a topic from everybody's buddy, Matt Cutts:

www dot mattcutts dot com/blog/ui-fun-better-snippets (sorry, no URL priveleges yet)

For a small number of sites, we’re not just showing our regular snippets: we try to expose useful links from within a site...And the answer is: it’s all algorithmic. The algorithms pick the sites where this could be helpful. Of course money isn’t involved at all.

We have mini-directory links when you search for our company name or some variations of it. It seems like it might be useful to a repeat customer who knows our name and is looking for a particular section.

I suspect this would be a very hard thing to make happen for competitive keywords.

 

Thanks for checking out this post.

I was looking through some SERPs before and came across this. The #1 ranked page has subheadings for their site listed under their result. Is this something to do with Google Sitemaps?

here is the resut page.

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=dunk+island&btnG=Search&meta=

Any tips for getting listed this way? If you could get listed like this your result would take up more screen real estate and would be more valuable I guess...

Thanks!

 

If a site on the top is multi-theme service, then G shows links to some internal section of the site. See more on the Mutt Cuts blog right here:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ui-fun-better-snippets/

 

I have a pr 0 website, and it does show sections of it.
The reason for showing sections this way is because I signed up with google sitemaps. Using sitemaps, you can make life easier for googlebot while indexing your pages

 

Can you specify the keyword and your website?

 

I think the sitemaps thing is a rumor. It might help, but no more so than anything else you can do to make your site crawler-friendly. I seriously doubt sitemaps guarantee section listings.

For instance, we do not have G-sitemaps but if you search for our company name, our site shows up with sections. It doesn't show the sections for any other keyword.

 

Sure, tell this Matt Cutts 'cause he doesn't know about it.

 

Thanks. That will help a little. I know it is a not a sitemaps thing though. One of my personal sites actually does this & I have never created a sitemap for this particular website