I understand that sitelinks are completely automated, but do we have any strategic to build it, instead of waiting it automated? Below are examples site with sitelinks: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/ - got sitelink. Have lot of pages with PR 1-3, high traffic, old domain. http://www.ipaydna.biz/ - got sitelink. Medium traffic and couple of pages with PR 1. http://www.cherrypompom.com/ got sitelink - low traffic, with couple of pages with PR1 - 2 http://www.thermarite.com.my/ no sitelink - low traffic, with couple of pages with PR1 - 2 In conclusion, sitelinks is very depend on the following item: 1. Number of pages with Page Rank. If a site have minimum 4-6 pages with PR, the chances to get sitelink is higher. 2. Site with good structure, preferable CSS as navigation, no flash. Thermarite navigation is build by images, index page have a flash content, pages does not have rich content. 3. Site with deep links is easier than site without deep link
The workings of many Google algorithms, including Sitelinks, are kept secret to discourage people from manipulating the rankings, but we can still look at examples and try to understand where Sitelinks come from. I've worked on a number of sites with Sitelinks, and these sites are similar in the following ways: Site ranks first for the keyword(s) that generate the Sitelinks listing Easily spiderable, structured navigation Fairly high natural search traffic High click through rates from the search results page Useful outbound links Inbound links from high quality sites Site age is several years or older These factors may, or may not, be exactly what Google uses to trigger Sitelinks. Nevertheless, everything on this list is desirable for a web marketing program, so using the list to guide our strategy will probably help our sites become more effective in any case.
My site gets around 2000 visitors a day and is PR2 and I have sitelinks. Actually, I got sitelinks when I was only getting around 500 visitors a day. So yeah, it doesn't really matter on popularity. As mentioned, it also depends on many other factors.
Agree with you, as long as those example visible to public. We can slowly guest on, how Google sitelinks algorithms work.
Getting pagerank (I got sitelinks as soon as I got PR2), building links, getting multiple pages indexed, good content quality, all that stuff.
I think site link depends on the structure of the website and internal linking between your web pages. Traffic does not affect sitelinks in any way. I've my website: Web Design Company I am getting around 400-500 visitors per months but I've sitelinks since a long when I was getting only 50-100 visitors.