How to Get Google Sitelinks for Your Site

November 21st, 2009 by Lax

We all might have seen that when we search for any particular site by its name, we can see the result containing the site home page at the top along with other important links of the same website displayed in two columns. It allows easy navigation for the viewer of the site and also helps them to go directly to their required info link. Here, I will tell you what Google sitelinks are, how to get your site listed in Google sitelinks and what are the benefits you can get by doing that.

What are Google Sitelinks?

They can be defined as the links that appear below the first result you get when you search for a blog, site or even company by its name. The links are provided by Google along with the homepage link in two columns usually. These links helps for the easy navigation for the visitor of the site. Instead of going to the homepage and searching for their required field of interest, a visitor can directly go to them from the search result page itself. But one thing to notice here is that Google provide only those links of a site in the sitelinks which are most popular and has got Maximum no. of backlinks. Here, below I have provided the TechZoomIn sitelinks for your reference.

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How to Get Your Site Listed in Google Sitelinks?

You will be very disheartened to know that Google sitelinks process is totally automatic. Google’s automatic system analyzes the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they’re looking for. They only show sitelinks for results in case they think they’ll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn’t allow Google algorithms to find good sitelinks, they don’t show them. So, there is no way that you can enable or disable this feature according to your choice. A website needs to have a good amount of backlinks to get their sitelinks listed in Google. When people searching for its name on Google and other search engines find your site listed there, the chances of getting sitelinks for your site increases. Google only display sitelinks when a site has a minimum of three sitelinks available.

What are the Benefits of having Sitelinks for Your Website?

There are several benefits that sitelinks for your site can have. One of the major benefits is an increase in traffic for your website, because the sitelinks of your site will give them more exposure in the search results thereby increasing the CTR (click-through rate) you will get on search queries. Moreover, as you know very well that only well established and popular site get sitelinks for their site in Google, it improves the brand value of your site. It has got a good impact on the mind of people visiting your site for the first time. Also it helps in Building a good relationship with the readers of your site.

If your site doesn’t have sitelinks, don’t worry and keep publishing good Quality articles. Google will automatically add sitelinks for your site within some period of time. Let me know your valuable Comment on this.

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