I was wondering how to achieve the following when searching for my website on Google. I've tried searching around for it but I'm not sure what the exact term is so I haven't gotten anywhere.
Basically, when my website is searched in Google, I'd like the subpages to be indexed like shown in the image below, instead of coming up as another result. Is this possible or is it something that Google does for you?
Take a look at this screenshot:
Google calls them sitelinks.
You can’t enforce them currently:
We only show sitelinks for results when we think they'll be useful to the user. If the structure of your site doesn't allow our algorithms to find good sitelinks, or we don't think that the sitelinks for your site are relevant for the user's query, we won't show them.
At the moment, sitelinks are automated.
For encouraging Google to display them for your site, see the question on Webmasters SE:
What are the most important things I need to do to encourage Google Sitelinks?
They also have a "sitelinks" tag.
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I'm building a forum software using node.js called NodeBB. I've been able to get Google to index the pages well enough, but I'm having trouble getting those results to show up in the Discussion tab like current established forum software.
I found a response to another SO question saying to use rich snippets. I've experimented around with it but with no luck.
It may be interesting to note that another next gen forum called Discourse seems to be having a similar problem (ex. discourse, howtogeek); I'm not sure if they have a solution for it either.
While I am unsure of what Google explicitly looks for regarding scraping of discussions, following the guidelines established by schema.org may help you tailor your site towards Google scraping.
Similar sites like Xenforo use these rich snippets/schema tags, and they are scraped properly... although other forums don't seem to do anything at all and yet get scraped properly anyway.
First, I apologize if this is not considered programming related enough for some peoples taste, however I feel it is appropriate as my question is related to what you put in a websites markup, I think so anyways.
Ok so I searched Google for the term dribbble invite and on page 2 of my results, or at this URL Google result the 5th result on page 2 (will probably be different for you based on your location and other factors) There is a result like the image below
Notice the author Photo and name. I am looking for how to do this with a website? From my research in the past it looks like it is done with Microformats however a search through the source code of the page HERE does not appear to be using any Microformats.
Any idea how this is happening for that website?
Typically, this is done through Google+.
There's a pretty good article on how-to here :
http://www.labnol.org/internet/author-profile-in-google/19775/
Pretty much that is the question. Is there a way that is more efficient than the standart sitemap.xml to [add/force recrawl/remove] i.e. manage your website's index entries in google?
I remember a few years ago I was reading an article of an unknown blogger that was saying that when he write news in his website, the url entry of the news will appear immediately in google's search result. I think he was mentioning about something special. I don't remember exactly what.. . some automatic re-crawling system that is offered by google themselves? However, I'm not sure about it. So I ask, do you think that I am blundering myself and there is NO OTHER way to manage index content besides sitemap.xml ? I just need to be sure about this.
Thank you.
I don't think you will find that magical "silver bullet" answer you're looking for, but here's some additional information and tips that may help:
Depth of crawl and rate of crawl is directly influenced by PageRank (one of the few things it does influence). So increasing your site's homepage and internal pages back-link count and quality will assist you.
QDF - this Google algorithm factor, "Query Deserves Freshness", does have a real impact and is one of the core reasons behind the Google Caffeine infrastructure project to allow much faster finding of fresh content. This is one of the main reasons that blogs and sites like SE do well - because the content is "fresh" and matches the query.
XML sitemaps do help with indexation, but they won't result in better ranking. Use them to assist search bots to find content that is deep in your architecture.
Pinging, especially by blogs, to services that monitor site changes like ping-o-matic, can really assist in pushing notification of your new content - this can also ensure the search engines become immediately aware of it.
Crawl Budget - be mindful of wasting a search engine's time on parts of your site that don't change or don't deserve a place in the index - using robots.txt and the robots meta tags can herd the search bots to different parts of your site (use with caution so as to not remove high value content).
Many of these topics are covered online, but there are other intrinsic things like navigational structure, internal linking, site architecture etc that also contribute just as much as any "trick" or "device".
Getting many links, from good sites, to your website will make the Google "spiders" reach your site faster.
Also links from social sites like Twitter can help the crawlers visit your site (although the Twitter links do not pass "link juice" - the spiders still go through them).
One last thing, update your content regularly, think of content as "Google Spider Food". If the spiders will come to your site, and will not find new food, they will not come back again soon, if each time they come, there is new food, they will come a lot. Article directories for example, get indexed several times a day.
wondering if anyone has heard of a way to filter Twitter search results to the users 'following' list? I'd like to do a search for pics that people I follow have posted. The pics part is fairly trivial (search for image URLs) but I'm guessing that a user-filtered search is beyond the API, even with oAuth.
I've seen a couple of services like snapbird.org that advertise this feature (even though they don't seem to work well), any guesses as to how they go about this?
Thanks!
You can implement this specific image search easily with the help of jetwick.com available as open source here: https://github.com/karussell/Jetwick
Currently searching in your friends is possible but adding yet another filter isn't that hard. Patches are welcome ;)
When you search for something on google, e.g. stackoverflow.com it shows you sitelinks on the search results page. Is there a way to manipulate this information. Or is there some way to suggest google that link x, link y and link z should be promoted on the search results page.
Short answer: not at present: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334
Quote:
At the moment, sitelinks are completely automated. We're always working to improve our sitelinks algorithms, and we may incorporate webmaster input in the future. There are best practices you can follow, however, to improve the quality of your sitelinks. For example, for your site's internal links, make sure you use anchor text and alt text that's informative, compact, and avoids repetition.
It seems you can remove pages you'd rather weren't in there, but you can't promote things you'd like (beyond normal good SEO) and you can't make Google display sitelinks if it isn't already.
As Andrew said, all you can really do regarding sitelinks is:
Be considered an authority website by
Google worthy of sitelinks in the
first place, and
Remove sitelinks
that you don't want from your Google
Webmaster control panel.
I have some high-ranking websites with sitelinks and it's clear that Google doesn't always have an easy time discerning what's worthwhile. Sometimes, my vBulletin forums even include sitelinks to random members from the first page of Google. The next day (or refresh), the sitelinks include non-prominent subforums. It truly feels random unless you have a more straightforward navigation system like a Wordpress blog.