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How do you find what terms bring up sitelinks?

         

purple

8:40 am on Jun 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Google Webmaster tools says one of my sites has sitelinks but I can't find the terms which bring up the links.

Is there a way to find out what search terms generate sitelinks

tedster

1:50 pm on Jun 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

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The list that you see in Webmaster Tools is what the Sitelink algo has picked to display -- IF the rest of the algo decides to display sitelinks at all. Seeing that list is no guarantee that sitelinks are being displayed for your site - only that Google is prepared and has calculated the actual links they will use, if and when.

The most common query that will display sitelinks is the domain name - with or without the tld extension. But even searching on those most closely associated terms, there's still no certainty that the sitelinks will be displayed.

There is a reference thread about sitelinks in the Hot Topics [webmasterworld.com] thread, which is always pinned to the top of this forum's index page. One of the discussions in there is exactly about this topic: [webmasterworld.com...]

purple

2:38 pm on Jun 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

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thanks read that thread its helpful. What I do know is more and more sites have "sitelink" either visible or just in GWT

Lame_Wolf

2:58 pm on Jun 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

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Google Webmaster tools says one of my sites has sitelinks but I can't find the terms which bring up the links.

Put your site name in and it will show it.
With my site, I have to use "anexample" but will not show if "an example" is used.

Another site I used to run worked with and without spaces. So I guess it is also to do with the words used in the site name.