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Sitelinks are links to related pages that some search engine's will place under the main landing page for a highly relevant site on search engine result pages.

Sitelinks are links to related pages that some search engine's will place under the main landing page for a highly relevant site on search engine result pages. As an example, if you Google the term "Amazon", you'll likely be returned Amazon's homepage with 6 sub-sections beneath it. Those 6 sub-sections are called "Sitelinks".

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What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?

My website used to have sitelinks and now it doesn't. It's very possible that it's due to changing the website to a sidebar design instead of having an "interstitial" type landing page which limited the number of choices, but I'm not sure. Here is…
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Sitelinks in Google search results run words together when I use a inside in

I have the following structure in my navigation menu: There is a span inside an anchor tag which makes the navigation look better.
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Choose the Google Sitelinks that are shown when somebody searches for my website

How can I remove Search for product, About us, Log in, etc. which are displayed in Google Search? And how can I add particular categories like Automobiles, Mobiles & Tablets, etc.?
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How can I prevent Google from mixing different languages in my sitelinks?

I have a web site in two different languages (English and Spanish). It is indexed by Google but, when searched, sitelinks below my result appear mixed with Spanish and English subtitles. Each language is in a different folder (mydomain.com/en for…
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Shrinking site's size by removing pages from sitemap and from internal links

We are an eCommerce site with about 50,000 pages. We decided to focus on about 2,000 so google will crawl our site better. We planning to remove 48,000 pages from the sitemaps and from the site links, so it won't be accessible through the site. The…
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Is it possible to reduce the number of "Site Links" displayed in google search results through Webmaster Tools?

I know I am able to demote links I don't want to appear, but what I really want to do is reduce the number of site links from 6 to 4. Does anyone know if this is possible or how to achieve it?
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Setting up site links for a one-page scrolling site: Can anchored links be used?

I redesigned a website as a one-page scrolling site but now the sitelinks that appeared in Google search results are no longer there (ie- "About" "Contact Us") The site is set up with anchored links with similar sections as before (ie…
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How long does sitelink demotion take?

Google give us the option to Demote a sitelink URL within Webmaster Tools. According to the help page: Once you've demoted or undemoted a sitelink, it can take some time for search results to reflect your changes. Is there any indication on just…
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My website has sitelinks but doesn't have a search box below it; is there anything I can do?

See for example this google query for wikipedia; the first result has both sitelinks and a search box to search within the website. My site only has sitelinks. Is there anything I can do to make the search box appear?
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Analysing Bounce Rate and Time on Page

I'm working on an eCommerce site and there's a perceived problem with the bounce rates on product pages. The best performing page (in terms of views), tends to have a very high bounce rate, at about 80%. This page is also targeted with Ads, but in…
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How are Google Site links generated in search results?

Possible Duplicate: What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks? I just met a fellow designer who runs a website with the same pagerank as mine. When googling both our names, search results will show Site links…
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Google showing site links only for USA

Google is showing my websites' sitelinks only to the USA (I can only see the sitelinks via VPN) i already added my country on google search console international targeting. how can i fix this?
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How to remove non-existent sitelinks?

A Google search of my site shows sitelinks (ie. links below the main link in the search result) that point to pages that no longer exist. I have checked to ensure these pages have been deleted on my WordPress site. Using the Google Webmaster Tools,…
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Will adding site search microdata get Google to show a site search field when users search for your brand?

For some reason, a search for our company name (“hometalk”) does not produce the search box in the results (even though we do have sitelinks). We are adding schema markup as outlined here, but we're not sure about: Will adding the code make the…
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Google sitelinks appearing when our brand name is searched with a space but not appearing when searched without the space

When we search Google for word1 word2, it lists our site at #1 with 4 or 5 sitelinks underneath which is what we wanted. Question - is there anything we can do to help achieve the same result/layout for the search word1word2 which also appears at #1…
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