Issues with sitelnks anchor text

[JoaoCJ]

Hi Everyone,

I'm currently running a job classified ad site, and having some problems with my brand site links. So in short, when I type my brand some sitelinks appear which is OK, but there is one that has the anchor text as "1", yep just a number one, as far as I know, Google takes the anchor text from internal linking, and since this the landing page for my search site.com/search-jobs I don't want to demote it.

Now I started checking why the number "1" is actually showing and I figured it out it might be due to pagination, since the search results (?=page2, ?=page3, etc) were all linking from the bottom numbers to site.com/search-jobs with the almighty number 1, I took a decision on changing that link to site.com/search-jobs?page=1 and adding a canonical tag to the landing page to avoid duplicated content.

The solution worked for a few days for private sessions only (anchor text was Search for jobs in Peru), but after that number 1 came back and I can't figure it out how to change it, tried to update the cache on search console on most pages that still had the previous version but to no avail.

My boss and I are trying to fix this issue but no luck yet, should I update all of my pages' cache?, any help would be much appreciated.

[BritneyMuller]

Hello,

Are you seeing an internal site link as the first result for your brand search? I'm a little confused, would you mind attaching an image of what you're seeing?

Thanks!

[JoaoCJ]

Sure, I just added the image, is not about the position instead  is the anchor text that is bugging me.

My landing search page anchor text is "1" in the sitelinks, and I want to change to something more like the title's page.

Thanks.

byW1r

[JoaoCJ]

Hi Everyone,

We are taking the demote option since I couldn't find another way to change the sitelink anchor text.

Thanks everyone.

[JoaoCJ]

Well It seems I can't no longer demote the link since as today the option has been removed from google console.

Cheers.