Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
For example, for our #1 organic phrase "widgets", we used to have the little indented navigational links to the most popular pages like "custom-made widgets", "bulk widgets", "widget catalog", etc.
I tested around a bunch of queries, and the only ones showing navigational links are those that obviously have a single intended result. For example, querying on "SAT" shows the sat homepage and its navigational links. Querying on "Microsoft", "Yahoo" and our company name all show the navigational links.
Querying on "Google", strangely enough, does not - all of its results get their own listing (mostly separating by different subdomains).
Did this happen during my holiday food-induced coma, or is this new? I haven't seen any official posts or discussion on this, so I'm assuming its fairly new. Pfft.
If so, having Sitelinks for the generic keyword would be pretty rare (I've never even see it). As you said, "...the only ones showing navigational links are those that obviously have a single intended result." That's pretty much been the rule.
At any rate, no Sitelinks have disappeared from the domains that I work with. But we do know that Sitelinks are placed by algorithm -- maybe the algo was tweaked a bit.
Anyone else see Sitelinks go missing that were there previously?
The only thing I can think of is that someone on our team issued a spam report for another site in the top 10 for the keyword phrase. Maybe it drew some undesired attention that we were given sitelinks for a generic keyword phrase.
