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[SteveHarris]

Hi All,

Just finishing off the website for my new game and wondered if anybody knows how to get your google entry to show like this: http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=aquaria&btnG=Google+Search&meta= with links for different parts of the site?

Thanks in advance all

Steve

[Javilop]

Hi!

This is something you can not directly control. Google creates these links automatically for each page taking in count in several factors as page rank, entry pages, etc.

[SteveHarris]

Thanks Loover. I wondered why I couldn't find any info on how to implement it!

Steve

[Core Xii]

Actually I don't think that's entirely true. You can influence this by embedding spider-friendly meta-information in your site. I don't know the specific values however. I'll try to find them...

Edit: Ah it's not standard but rather Google-specific. What you're looking for is here, referred to as a Google "Sitemap".

[Javilop]

You can influence this by embedding spider-friendly meta-information in your site. I don't know the specific values however. I'll try to find them...

That's sounds interesting. Share it if you find something, please.

I tried in the past using "Google webmasters tools." Having a sitemap, etc. But I didn't found any option in order to influence directly upon such links.

[Javilop]

If you use "Webmasters tools", and you go to "Link>Site Links" you can read this:

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.

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.

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

It's related to your sitemap (if you have one) I think. I don't know.

[SteveHarris]

Have now added a sitemap... i'll let you know if it works!

[Javilop]

Like I said, is not the sitemap what creates those links. I have sitemaps in all my pages and none has still these links. Only webpages with high pagerank on subpages have them.

Maybe you can influce a bit with the sitemap, but I haven't read anything about that in any official google help.

What is official is the text I copy pasted before.

[Javilop]

What you can only do is to block the Sitelinks showed that you don't want to appear:

Please, read this:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

At the moment, sitelinks are completely automated.

[medieval]

if you spam your website on a lot of places like forums and stuff, no doubt that you'll get your rank up.

I do not recommend it though

[ஒழுக்கின்மை (Paul Eres)]

Actually not, because most forums use 'no-follow' tags, which means links from them do not count towards Google pagerank. If you want to get your pagerank up, you need to get links from sites with high pagerank, not forums and such.

[Javilop]

If you want to get your pagerank up, you need to get links from sites with high pagerank, not forums and such.

100% Correct.

And I would like to add that is not only a webpage with high pagerank, it has to be an important subpage (or the index, of course) and the link is more much valuable for Google if it is inside text with keyworkds (not only in a link list).

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