What are sitelinks?
Suppose you are searching some site in a Google and you found a result with links below site name.These links are known as sitelink.Google has a special algorithm to analyze the link structure of any site to find shortcuts that could save time of users and also they can allow them to quickly find the information they’re looking for.
To know about sitelinks have a look on the image given below:
Google have some particular algorithm for sitelink. So the structure of sitelink totally depends upon Google algorithm.There are some myths among users that these sitelink depend upon traffic of particular link.
According to Google “The links that show up underneath the first search result and which lead to specific pages deeper within the site. Sitelinks enable users to jump directly to important parts of a site, which is often useful for large, complex websites. Sitelinks have the additional advantage of giving users an overview of a website’s content by highlighting some of the popular parts of the site.”
Google display sitelinks when a site has a minimum of three sitelinks available.
However if you think that the sitelink appearing in Google is not appropriate or relevant there is a trick by which you can block them so that they cannot appear.
To block a sitelink you have to perform a following steps:
1. Go to Webmastertool homepage,click on the site you want to perform a sitelinks block function.
2. Under Site configuration, click Sitelinks. If Google have sitelinks information for your site, a list of sitelink will be displayed.
3. Click Block next to the sitelinks you want to remove. Also you have to tell reasons why you want to block the sitelinks – it will help Google to improve the sitelink algorithm.
4. You need to wait for some time for your changes to be visible.
Article by Himanshu Yadav
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Interesting… I always wondered why some sites had that extra information and others didn’t. Seems like that would be a good attention grabber, assuming the sitelinks point to content you want to focus on your site.
~ Kristi
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@Kikolani Absolutely, sitelinks provide informations about the website, without visiting the website ,so it is very important for any website,i think Google algorithm somehow depend on Niche, however it is not necessary because one of my friend write a popular post on Rapidshare and Google made a Sitelink named as Rapidshare, however there is only a single post of Rapidshare on his website, so it is actually very difficult to understand how the algorithm works.
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Good info up there!
Yes, it has nothing to do with traffic, neither does it pick up hot post on the blogs. I guess the algorithm tries to find categories on the blog and converts it into sitelinks.
But I don’t think there would be any need of disabling it unless it sitelinks a particularly unimportant post!
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Thanks a lot for this post. Its very useful
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Thanks for Comment Aneesh. Welcome to Shoutmeloud
no response from blogger team, what should i do to remove a blog not mine….