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.
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How to Get Google Sitelinks?

Google Sitelinks are generated by Google from site contents in order to help users navigate the site in a better way. Google generally shows sitelinks  for results which they think, will be useful to the users. Google generates these Site Links periodically and also takes various site factors into consideration such as the site architecture, site navigations, the number of links pointing to the site with the main keywords as the anchor text,  the number of searches and click through rates for the main keywords, the  number of pages indexed for a particular keyword, the age of the website etc.

Site links can be achieved by following certain SEO techniques and tactics in the most proper way. There is no particular process which can give you a guaranteed  site links in Google. But there are certain things that we can follow in order to get sitelinks.

Some of the steps that I find useful are

1)      Easy site navigation structure.

2)      Increase in traffic to the site

3)      Proper SEO of the site.

4)      Maintaining stable top rankings for the major keywords

5)      Getting quality backlinks.

6)      Updated XML sitemap generation (once in  a month)

7)      Using Google Webmasters tool.

8)      Strengthening the internal links.

Moreover the age of the Domain is also considered. Google doesn’t give site links to relatively new websites.  Follow the above mentioned things and wait till you get site links. Eventhough you cannot make Google Sitelinks happen yourself, you can control the links to be displayed in Site links via Google Webmaster Tool. I have tried the above mentioned things and was able to get sitelinks to 95% of my clients.

Google Sitelinks