{"id":527,"date":"2009-04-16T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/news\/?p=527"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:14:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T21:14:36","slug":"google-expands-use-of-sitelinks-in-search-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/google-expands-use-of-sitelinks-in-search-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Expands Use of Sitelinks In Search Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has introduced an expansion of sitelinks, which brings the possibility of a more limited version of sitelinks being displayed for multiple results on a search results page. Sitelinks are links to additional pages on a website that are shown underneath a result from that website. The decision whether to show sitelinks for a given query and what links to show is determined algorithmically. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/one-line-sitelinks.html\">post<\/a> on the Google Webmaster Central Blog announcing the expansion, Google explains that the purpose of sitelinks is to &#8220;enable users to jump directly to important parts of a site, which is often useful for large, complex websites&#8221; and to give &#8220;users an overview of a website&#8217;s content by highlighting some of the popular parts of the site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally, sitelinks were only shown for the first result of a search with three to eight links shown in two columns. If your search for Microsoft you can see example of this along with a search box, for searching within the given website, that is sometimes shown under the sitelinks. The expansion introduces one-line sitelinks, which show up to four links to other pages on the website. The one-line sitelinks can show up for multiple results, including the first result.<\/p>\n<p>In the post Google also announced changes in the ability for websites to block pages from their websites, through Google&#8217;s Webmasters Tools, from being shown as sitelinks. Google will be &#8220;speeding up our response time&#8221; in blocking pages and expanding the blocking, which is currently limited to blocking pages shown as sitelinks for a website&#8217;s homepage, to any page on a website that displays sitelinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has introduced an expansion of sitelinks, which brings the possibility of a more limited version of sitelinks being displayed for multiple results on a search results page. Sitelinks are links to additional pages on a website that are shown underneath a result from that website. The decision whether to show sitelinks for a given &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/16\/google-expands-use-of-sitelinks-in-search-results\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Expands Use of Sitelinks In Search Results&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-search-engines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whitefirdesign.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}