How do I let google link to sub-pages in the search result
google and sub-page in search result
bwakkie
8:29 am on May 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
I noticed (it might be there for a while) that on some search results in Google there are links directly to sub-pages of the site.
How does this work?
cheers
g1smd
8:43 am on May 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
Google chooses those at their discretion. You can't influence the initial choice.
You can tell it to not choose certain pages via a setting in webmastertools.
lucy24
9:38 am on May 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
By "sub-pages" do you mean fragments? There probably has to be an anchor directly attached to a heading. I don't think anyone knows what the exact cutoff is, or if there are other variables. Mine tend to be h3 on pages with no h1.
g1smd
9:48 am on May 31, 2012 (gmt 0)
I took the question to be all about sitelinks rather than named anchors, but either of those is a possibility.
Robert Charlton
7:57 am on Jun 2, 2012 (gmt 0)
Which is it? You can influence named anchors.
"Sitelinks" are generally the most popular 4-6 pages linked to from your home page, but usually only appear when a site is dominant for a search query. Usually, a site is dominant for a search on its own domain name, so Sitelinks will appear then, but results vary greatly on how important a site is for a given query.
"Named anchors" are sections of a page. Check out this early discussion of them, where the vocabulary wasn't quite precise because we hadn't seen them before, and we at first thought they were a variety of Sitelink....
