I’ve noticed that the Search Engine Journal listings in Google have been showing Sitelinks for a good month or so now, but noticed that those site links are not the exact ones I’d like to see listed in the Google index when people search for “search engine journal“, my name or other terms which serve the Search Engine Journal homepage in Google results.
Here are the Sitelinks for SEJ as served in Google results:
And here is the message Google is giving me when I try to view my Sitelinks in Google Webmaster Central Tools:
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 sitelinks.
Hmmm… looks like I’m not the only one with jet lag.
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Barry Schwartz on Mar 1, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Yea, GWT is rarely in sink with what we see. Makes you wonder about what linkage data and other data they are giving us.
Richard on Mar 2, 2008 at 4:50 am
Yeah i’ve seen that over the last week or so. They have added new functionality “iGoogle Gadgets” which may have affected this for some unknown reason
Dejan Petrovic on Mar 2, 2008 at 9:07 am
I’ve noticed the sitelinks start to come up for all sites now if you search for the exact site title or domain. This still doesn’t work for smaller sites if you search for a competitive term and the site comes up at the top of the SERP.
David Eaves on Mar 2, 2008 at 10:23 am
Yeah, I noticed this a little while back when I 1st got sitelinks for my site. It is funny because my friend has a link showing up for a lesbian worms post that he did and he can’t get rid of it:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=environmental+graffiti&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enGB221GB221
Advanced Technology on Mar 2, 2008 at 11:40 am
You aren’t alone. I got sitelinks for months in my Webmaster tool, never displayed below my entries, and now I don’t get it anymore.
Some update in progress? I don’t know. My web site stands always on top, so I don’t take care of sitelinks as additional entry point … not at the moment.
Sushubh on Mar 2, 2008 at 2:33 pm
i think they do allow u to remove the ones u do not want. i remember seeing that option the last time i checked. they do show sitelinks for a lot more sites nowadays.
Loren Baker, Editor on Mar 2, 2008 at 2:51 pm
True Sushubh, they are showing Sitelinks for more and more sites, but not allowing Google Webmaster Tools users the ability to edit them, which they should allow for all validated users.
Affiliate Marketing Introduction For Beginners on Mar 2, 2008 at 4:17 pm
I think with every software there will be glitches. Yes sometimes google does not get it right but overall they do a good job
Perhaps resubmitting your sitemap may help.
I use google webmaster tools only as a guide.
The information you need out there is what people have access to ie the google index
Mercy on Mar 2, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Yes, Google Site Links confuses me a lot. I got site links for the Keyword “Independent Living Technologies”. But it just landed for one day and it just disappeared from the very next day….
Wayne Smallman on Mar 3, 2008 at 7:12 am
I’m seeing the self-same thing for two of my clients.
I saw this the middle of last week and thought it was odd since they’d only just come through (15th of December last year) for those two websites…
Richard on Mar 3, 2008 at 9:19 pm
The issue seems to be fixed now, at least for my sites with sitelinks
Jaan Kanellis on Mar 3, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Loren their is NOWAY Google is going to allow us to edit Sitelinks.
Loren Baker, Editor on Mar 3, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Yeah, but we can edit them by blocking the ones we don’t want listed, like “Previous Entries”
Jaan Kanellis on Mar 3, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Sure, I know what you mean.
Travel Agent Business on May 2, 2008 at 2:08 am
Thanks for letting me know. I was wondering why links weren’t showing when I know I have quite a few. :-?
Christmas Hampers on Jun 15, 2008 at 5:43 pm
I haven’t managed to gain sitelinks yet. Is three a minimum number of pages for a website before Google will consider them? My external link count hasn’t been updated for some time either.
Web Agency Chieti on Jun 16, 2008 at 12:29 am
@Christmas Hampers
The minimum links, actually, have been set up to 4. About their presence, mostly it depends by the real quality of your web site.
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