How To Block a Google Sitelink

Sitelinks are those links that all the webmasters hopes to have along with their websites in Google search results. Sitelinks are those links which appear below the website in the Google search results and not all the websites have sitelinks in the search results. The presence of sitelinks in the search results makes it easier for the users to navigate through different sections of your website.

You cannot make sitelinks appear below your site’s search results in Google, rather Google’s algorithm decides whether to display sitelinks for your site or not. To display sitelinks for your site, Google’s algorithm takes  certain parameters such as the search engine friendliness of your site structure, the relevancy of the section for the user query, how you optimized your internal links and its anchor text etc. If the website fails to show these parameters, Google would not be showing sitelinks on its search results.

Google does not manually check your website to grant sitelinks and it is fully automated as of now. Getting sitelinks is much beneficial to your site, as you would be getting more traffic to your website from a single search query. This happens mainly as the user would be able to see other important pages or sections of your website in a single search query. All the new websites does not get sitelinks initially but once it is optimized in the best way, we can expect sitelinks to appear in the search results.

How to Block Certain Sitelinks from Appearing

Now your site has got sitelinks and you will feel pretty happy about getting the privilege of having sitelinks in Google search results. What if some of your site links are quite irrelevant to your page content or few of the sitelinks that are showing up are not making you happy. In this case you would like to have those irrelevant sitelinks removed from the search results.

Google provides you the option to do this through its Webmaster tool, and if your site is submitted and verified using the Google Webmaster tool, then you would be able to see the sitelinks in the admin section. Google provides you with the option to individually block the sitelinks from appearing in the search results. The steps for blocking Google sitelinks are given below.

1) In the dashboard of your website’s Google webmaster account, click on the link “Site Configuration” on the link menus appearing on the left.

2) After clicking on the above link you can see an expanded list of links and click on the link named “Sitelinks”

3) Now you can see a list of the sitelinks that are appering in Google search results, along with a button named “Block“.

4) Click on the “Block” button corresponding to the sitelink that you wish to remove and you would be taken to a expanded section asking for the reason for blocking that particular sitelink.

5) Select the appropriate reason and you can also add your comment. Now click on the “Block” button again and now you have successfuly posted a request to remove that sitelink.

After doing this it may take a few days before Google removes that particular sitelink from its search results. Till then it may appear their on the search results for your website.