I've just noticed that google appears to have exported to the public domain the sitelinks information that has been held (for a number of months) within google webmaster tools. The sitelinks - also identified as showing a site that is of 'authority' - now appear to have appeared in the search results when querying the specific name of your site. Has anyone else recieved sitelinks for their site? and if so are they now showing up for you on the SERPs?
Three of my SEO customer's sites recieved sitelinks recently, but until now I can find them on Google only for one of the sites. Astonishing to me is, they are all reative small sites while I thought until now, it has to be a site with really lots of pages to qualify for sitelinks.
The information within sitemaps, normally is evrything they know about your site. But it is rare that all these links are shown to the public domain. Normally they only show the better links. (better in their eyes). I cuurntly have over 2000 for one of my domains, but ionly 88 are shown to the public domain and many of them are internal links.
Yes I have two of my sites showing sitelinks now in Google. I am fortunate to identify the keywords which it is showing. I had noticed in some other thread webmasters(including me ) complaining that they could not find the keyword on which it is appearing. I think Google recently updated and exported the sitelinks shown in webmasters tool on to the search results.