Blog :: More Professional Corporate Appearance In Google Search Results
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WordPress kindly host my blog, which i think is rather good at what it is intended to do. http://blog.kothea.com
It looks professional enough, but I would like it to be better looking but don’t want to go down the CSS route yet.
Anyway that’s not my issue.
Wordpress kindly get my site auto-listed in google and my google raking for the relavent keywords is fine. I also gave google a sitemap.xml referencing the blog as well as my main site just in case!So what is my problem you shout!!
Well its how the results appear in google (not wordpress’s fault I know)
I get the ** indented listings ** and broadly understand why and why not they happen. They are fine.HOWEVER what I want is for when someone searches for “KOTHEA blog” or for KOTHEA that my site appears BUT WITH ALL THE SUB MENUS LISTED BELOW LIKE ON ‘PROPER’ CORPORATE SITES. ie the multiple urls to ‘contact’ ‘products’ ‘news’ like results for this search on BBC for example: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bbc&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a. I thought just producing a sitemap made that happen but patently it does not as my kothea.com/sitemap.xml has been there long enough and google site admin thing says that it has been read accepted validated and read.
any suggestions? Or is it just one of those things that google change secretly as and when they see fit? My friend at the same time did a similar thing with bynature.co.uk and their’s appears how I want it to (at least for the main site)
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Google is completely revamping the way they map all websites and at the moment there is too much chaos to determine how to cope with it. I’d suggest waiting a few weeks until things settle down. If your concern is BBC search, I suggest you get linked to by BBC as quickly as possible.
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My concern is about APPEARANCE in google search results. NOT RANKING.
thank you for yor comments
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You’re talking about what Google calls “sitelinks.” There’s no way to force Google to do it. It’s something they decide to do for sites based on their mysterious formulas. They do it for my blog, but I don’t know why. They “explain” the feature here:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334 -
Thanks for that link sensuous, I had wondered about that as well, but had never gone looking.
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They don’t really publicize the feature, probably because they don’t want people to attempt crazy optimization techniques. My guess is that it’s partly based on whether a site gets a lot of click-throughs from Google searches. I’m delighted that they do it for my blog, but it’s a mystery.
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We do know one thing about sitelinks — being hosted here on WordPress.COM is no impediment to getting that treatment from Google.
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hmmm sounds reasonable.
Except I get US$2000 worth of ADWORDS cliks to my site every year. I know for sure as I pay for it !!!
So it seems really strange, that my friends lower paid click-through site gets ‘better’ display on SE results. Sure they probably get more regular clicks.
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If you are using ads, then you are either in violation of the terms of service here at wordpress.com or you are talking about a self-hosted blog in which case you need to inquire over at wordpress.ORG’s support forums. This forum is only for questions about blogs hosted here at wordpress.com.
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more info
if i go to http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334
and follow that through then google’s web master section says that I have no site links. so that’s it. If it thinks you have them you can stop them displaying but as said earlier, otherwise you’re stuffed!
i am going to dig further as this is REALLY annoying me. If I find an answer I’ll post back at least I kjnow know they are called sitelinks !!!
many thanks
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If you’re paying to get traffic to your site, it’s very possible that Google is aware of the source of your traffic. Their automatic formulas will result in a low grade for your site. You probably won’t get good positioning in normal Google searches, and it’s possible they’ll never do sitelinks for you.
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