I don’t really see the point – why would google put this in. It’s a useful feature sure, but I feel it may attract more clicks to their natural listings (away from paid search)?
Surely it’s less profitable for their business model?
I have been working for a site that has an exact keyword domain name. The site has good rankings for several phrases and it was either #1 or #2 for its exact domain name search. Recently, I have seen it has come to #1 position for its exact name search and has these 3 new type of sitelinks.
However, the same site also (still) has sitelinks for another totally different keyword, and those sitelinks are the old ones. So for the same site, I am seeing different sitelinks based on the query.
Can it be that Google is giving this new sitelinks for sites that may not qualify to be the ultimate navigational result for a specific query.
IrishWonder 1147 days ago
http://www.irishwonder.comCould Google be changing the format of site links and experimenting with a new format on a limited set of SERPs?
BTW loved the way you spam the links
Dudibob 1147 days ago
I’ve seen a few sites like that but they’re not always number 1 in the SERPs…
DaveN 1147 days ago
@dudibob do you have an example ?
Dudibob 1147 days ago
can’t find it at the mo, will see if I stumble across it over the day
Dudibob 1146 days ago
it’s working for me at the moment, engineering jobs on a google.co.uk search. Number 2 has the new site links
Nick 1146 days ago
I don’t really see the point – why would google put this in. It’s a useful feature sure, but I feel it may attract more clicks to their natural listings (away from paid search)?
Surely it’s less profitable for their business model?
malcolm coles 1146 days ago
http://www.malcolmcoles.co.ukI’ve just seen THREE sites have sitelinks in one search: http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/google-shows-triple-inline-sitelinks/
Robin Harrison 1146 days ago
http://www.motors.co.ukJust came across this blog. The site I optimise has seen these links today for a volume generic search term http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=used+car+sales&meta=
Dudibob 1145 days ago
Perhaps it’s more a sign of trust than ‘you dominate these SERPs so we’ll let you dominate them more’?
Probably not the best explanation but it makes sense in my head lol
Affan Laghari 1145 days ago
I have been working for a site that has an exact keyword domain name. The site has good rankings for several phrases and it was either #1 or #2 for its exact domain name search. Recently, I have seen it has come to #1 position for its exact name search and has these 3 new type of sitelinks.
However, the same site also (still) has sitelinks for another totally different keyword, and those sitelinks are the old ones. So for the same site, I am seeing different sitelinks based on the query.
Can it be that Google is giving this new sitelinks for sites that may not qualify to be the ultimate navigational result for a specific query.