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    • KateGMaker
      KateGMaker last edited by

      I know getting site categories to appear under the site are dependent on a lot of factors including site mapping. We have a site that does the categorization thing when you type in the sites url name however more people search for the name of the talent to find the site and the short url on the site is just his name, but shorter. However I was just wondering is their a way to optimize the site so that way we could get categorization to show up under the sites URL when they search for the talents full name I ask because the amount of people looking for the talents full name rather than the short name is a lot larger and I would like to see if we can take advantage of the real estate, but I honestly don't think there is a way, however I figured I would open it up to discussion to see if anyone has any ideas.

      Example:

      Site name is ABCD you type this into Google and you get

      ABCD.com

      about           blog

      how to         contact

      However the actual person whose site it is is ABCDEF and when you type that in you just get:

      ABCD.com without any of the categories appearing below the url.

      And that is what I'm asking about.

      Thanks as I can't seem to find a lot of information on this. However if there is another spot on the site talking about this please let me know I may just not be searching with the right terms.

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      • BrianCrouch
        BrianCrouch last edited by

        Understand this about Sitelinks: they are, for the most part, generated by activity relevant to your pages.

        Q: Why doesn’t my very important “Clients” page get in the Sitelinks section ?
        A: This may have to do with the fact that Sitelinks are usually generated from the first level links only. This means that if you have a page reachable by two clicks, it will never be included in the Sitelinks section. On rare occasions, deeplinks will be chosen, but I am not sure as to how these websites are chosen. Also make sure that you have pure HTML links. No Javascript or Flash.

        http://www.seopedia.org/internet-marketing-and-seo/google-sitelinks-the-ultimate-faq/

        I have seen examples of heavily linked, heavily visited deeplinked product pages appearing in sitelinks under brand searches, but there's no  easy way to make this happen.

        In your case, be sure the talent page is a first level link, be sure that page has direct links to it from traffic generating sites. You might find though, that even without doing anything that Google will decide to make that page a sitelink.

        Lastly, be sure to visit GWT to disallow any sitelink which you don't want to appear.

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        • KateGMaker
          KateGMaker @BrianCrouch last edited by

          Right,

          I guess really it will be a matter of  a waiting game than anything. I didn't think there was a way to do it, but I was just wondering if anyone out there had more theories.

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