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    • Morris77
      Morris77 last edited by

      1.Does anyone know where google pulls that anchor text for the organic site links?  -- Is there a way to manipulate the anchor text of the  sitelinks to get our more important pages to stick out more (capitalization, punctuation etc.)

      2. If i block a few of my sitelinks from showing will goolge replace it with a new sitelink or will i be left with fewer?

      Thanks!

      Srs

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      • DanDeceuster
        DanDeceuster last edited by

        My understanding of site links is that Google will automatically generate them based on your internal linking structure.

        Pages that appear in your navigation have a better chance of appearing there. Basically they will normally put site links to the pages with the most pagerank.

        The anchor text is determined by the title of the page and the internal anchor text pointing to it. Get them matching and saying what you want and your sitelinks should say the same thing.

        If you block a sitelink Google certainly can replace it, but there's no guarantee.

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        • KeriMorgret
          KeriMorgret last edited by

          Here's what Google officially has to say about how they determine organic sitelinks, updated in October of 2010.

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

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