Hey.

 

When searching on Google I notice alot of websites have their other pages listed under their search result in smaller font. How is this possible? Do I need to submit some special link to Google or have a special instruction in my meta tags?

 

I have attached an example of what I mean.

 

If anyone could tell me how to get results like this, that would be great as having these results gives you a bigger exposure.

 

 

Thanks.

I've often wondered that myself! Anybody?

http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=406

 

I found this for you... doesn't give all the answers but it explains a bit

 

Seems to be some sort of experiment.

 

Oli

Google's official word on '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.

 

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.

I had sitelinks for the first time on my website last week, but only for one day. The search term on Google was "electric studio". It seems to have been triggered when my site had more than x amount of visitors per day. The domain, electricstudio.co.uk, is PR5, and has been for the last year, so that didn't affect it.

 

So after reading the article linked to above (great link btw), I'd guess that it's all got to do with how many visitors you have on a day-to-day basis, and how many pages your visitors visits on average.

 

Another useful link is http://www.jehochman.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml

I think it's a conspiracy for the more "popular" sites out there... ¬_¬

Yeah.. i always wondered actually... seems like it is a cover-up for more popular sites

 

Looking around it seems google does not want you to know how to do it....

There's no set rule, though its said to help if you make use of google analytics, and google adwords.

Google did an extended listing update all round this week (which is similar to sitelinks) google your company name and see if you got any

I have sitelinks for the site i maintain. however, only if someone searches for the name of the company, and a varient of the name of the company.

 

Im not sure if its a coinsidence that i signed up for a google webmaster account and uploaded an xml sitemap during the same week?

 

The sitelinks seems to have stayed there consistantly since I have noticed it.

Sitelinks will generally only ever appear for a search of the company name - but no having a webmaster tools account is not related, as google stores this information anyway, even if you choose not to access it by setting up a verified account.