What is that small site map that shows in Google search results below the best match. Will my site get that once my site map is up for a while or is that a PPC kind of thing? I searched Google for 'digital point' as an example.
rsltech, the listing you speak of is an "authoritative" search result in Google. It has nothing to do with sitemaps at all. When Google considers a listing to be an authority on the subject, the search result will have this.
it's called site links. read http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334 to learn more
Just as an additional note for this topic. Shortly after I received an answer to my question it was answered by Google when they updated their webmaster tools. There is a section in there for site links now so you can see when google automatically assigns them and what they are going to look like.
Log in google sitemap, you can see sitelinks. Sitelinks are additional links Google sometimes generates from site contents in order to help users navigate your site. Google generates these sitelinks periodically from your site's contents Because we generate sitelinks dynamically, this list can change from time to time. 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 sitelin