Comments on: Google sitelinks – Shouldn’t webmaster’s decide it ?

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:21:23 +0000

I think Google should send the webmaster an email before displaying a Stielink. That way the webmasters can choose not to display invalid links.

Did google do any follow up after this article..?
Only A-listed guys like you can help the not-listed-anywhere guys. So start a campaign..lol
cheers

By: Taimoor

Taimoor — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:40:48 +0000

How Much Time It take’s For a blog to get ranked and please give me seo and traffic tips.waiting for your reply

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:20:21 +0000

@Nish, sitelinks is not a service.

By: Nish

Nish — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:10:22 +0000

Sitelinks is a service by Google, so I guess they have the right to decide that…

Having said that, I do agree with your point of view but IMO Google will never let webmasters choose that.

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:17:11 +0000

That is true Niyaz, Google seem to be picking up the most traffic gnerating pages. The problem occurs when the pages are wrong and the links are wrong. I’ve had experience where one of my sitelinks had the title of a page but was linking to another article. Clearly, the google bot needs to make sure that it’s algorithm is error free or else sitelinks will do more harm to the site than good.

By: Niyaz PK

Niyaz PK — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:13:12 +0000

From another perspective, I think that Google is trying to show the visitors the popluar pages in the website.
In a sense this is better for visitors because they get to know about the popluar pages in the website.
So in essense what google does is better for the visitors rather than webmasters who want to showcase their website in Google like they showcase it in some directory with all the details THEY decide to show.

By: Atul

Atul — Mon, 12 May 2008 05:05:36 +0000

Just an afterthought Mani. I was reading the previous post about sitelinks. You mentioned that one of the criteria for sitelinks to appear is search friendliness. The exact quote was “Another criteria believed to be taken into consideration for a page to be included in the sitelinks is the measure of it’s search engine friendliness”. Does search engine friendly is not all about navigation, design and content ? The second line “It can be measured as the number of times the particular article was “searched and clicked on” through the search engines” is more clear.

By: Atul

Atul — Mon, 12 May 2008 04:37:05 +0000

Very thought provoking article Mani. I fully agree that we should be able to decide as to what links should apperar. And hope that Google will eventually listen to webmasters. My feeling is they will. Here’s why –

First they introduces rel attribute for bloggers, then gave webmasters the option to block sitelinks. That means they do care !

By: sandeep

sandeep — Sun, 11 May 2008 04:51:20 +0000

bingo … mani! lets start a campagin