Sitelink searchbox

[Leonie-Kramer]

Hi, Google has implemented the sitelinksearchbox. On one of my sites i have the results now when you search on brand name. Now i see at amazon.com if you use the searchlink box you directly go to the website of Amazon. I can't figure out how they did this. Can someone help me out?

Thanx, Leonie

[LynnPatchett]

HI Leonie,

You should be able to implement it by adding some additional markup to your homepage, you can read more about it here (the page also has some code examples). There is a follow up here pointing out a couple of the common issues that are seen when setting this up.

[Leonie-Kramer]

Hi Lynnp,

Thanx for your reply, i added the code a couple of weeks ago, but don't see the result.  Just copied the code from the same site you mentioned and added our stuff in in it:

[LynnPatchett]

HI Leonie,

It all looks correct and maybe it just needs time for google to pick it up. Perhaps one thing to check: google states that  you should have a canonical tag on your homepage and that this tag should match the url declared in the code above. In this case your canonical should include the trailing slash, if it doesn't have the trailing slash then you should remove it in the line:   "url": "http://www.mydomain.nl/".

Just a thought.

[Leonie-Kramer]

Hi, yes i'm using a canonical with the trailing slash, so that shouldn't be the problem, though  maybe  my impatience is. I see other retailers in my niche have it already working

i have configured in webmastertools - parameters to disable the parameter: search? does that something to do with it you think?

Thanx for your thoughts!

Grtz, Leonie

[LynnPatchett]

Hi Leonie,

Thats a good question, you wouldn't think it would make a difference, but a couple of weeks does seem like a long time to wait based on others comments (seem to be a matter of a few days in most cases). Not sure what else to suggest other than checking all the technicals again to be extra sure. If you want to mention your domain, I will have a quick look to see if anything obvious stands out...

[Leonie-Kramer]

Hi Lynn, i send you a private message wit h the domain name thanx!

[Leonie-Kramer]

It works

i removed the parameter in WMT and today it works very happy with it