I want my Google Sitelinks!
“You see that link?”
“Yeah, that’s a good’un.”
Every webmaster seems to be talking about his new Google Sitelinks. I am seeing more of these, are you? We had mentioned Google’s recent display of generosity. Well, finally, after being in line for 10 years, I got ‘em! Did you hear me? I said I actually have those little shortcuts generated algorithmically by Google when I rank number one for my brand name! Or do I? Now that we can all log into Google Webmaster Tools and view Sitelinks, I see them. There. But, I do not yet see them where they count: the search results. Below is what appears in Google Webmaster tools, but alas, a search for “clickfire” returns the same old results.
For those of you who have achieved Google Sitelinks, how are you finding them?
January 11th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Emory,
Check out your Google Sitemaps account and look at Top Search Queries under Statistics sub-heading on the left navigation. This is not actual, but you might check out your log reports for your highest traffic keyword from Google.
Your sitelinks are supposed to show up when you are in the top spot for a search query. This might not be “clickfire” if their isn’t much activity for the search term.
Of course, they may have updated your sitemaps account without updating the index… keep watching.
Cheers
January 11th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Stephen, I took a peek and didn’t see the Sitelinks for the top search queries yet. My sense it that what you suggested is true, Google may not have updated the index yet. Thanks for pointing this out.
February 25th, 2008 at 7:16 am
[...] noticed my Sitelinks appearing in Google Webmaster Tools. Today, for the first time, I am seeing Sitelinks for [...]
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:44 am
thank you for your explanation text.
August 30th, 2011 at 7:23 am
How can I generate sitelinks for my site
September 1st, 2011 at 1:29 pm
I don’t think there is a formula to generate sitelinks but I’ve run across tutorials that attempt to make guesses as to what’s required. I think the ultimate way is to create a site that features all the components that Google thinks to be valuable and a site that they want to send visitors to.