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When I Google certain things (lets say 'Zeldman') I get zeldman.com as number one result. But below that description farmed from his meta tag there are key sections of his site, with their respective urls beside the section name. I've been seeing that more often. How are these sites doing this?
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That's a good question, for example if you search for "css beauty" you get the same result. I have a feeling it has to do with how long the site's been up and traffic, but there's no way to know that.
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Perhaps they have submitted sitemaps?
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- CommentAuthorseth.aldridge
- CommentTimeFeb 17th 2007
It is the Sitemaps. Google has very specific ways you can submit your sitemap in the Webmaster Tools they provide. There pretty easy XML files to create and once you submit them and they get crawled Google will start to display them. -
hmm... the funny part is I never submitted a site map for cssbeauty.
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they're not related to Google Sitemaps... they're called Google Sitelinks. They're completely automated and based on an algorithm that no one outside of Google has been able to figure out exactly (at least to my knowledge). It is known that you have to be the first result for the sitelinks to appear.
Here are some links for you to explore:- Google Webmaster Help Center - How do you compile the list of links shown below some search results?
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog - Information about Sitelinks
- Matt Cutts - UI fun: Better snippets
- Search Engine Watch Forums - Getting New Sitelinks Under Your Top Listing At Google
- Search Engine Watch - Google Web Site Categories Explored
- Search Engine Watch - Google Sitelinks: New Name For Those Links Under The Top Listings
- Search Engine Roundtable - Google Sitelinks Update
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The more "authority" your site has, the more likely it will show other results from your site. CSS Beauty has a pagerank of 7, and despite all of the pagerank means nothing crap, having a pagerank of 7 is a very good thing to have. Also, having your title tags formatted the same way throughout the site also helps. Wordpress and other CMSs do this for you. The more authority you have in google the more it will show for the results. Try searching for microsoft. Anyhow, that is as much as I can get into it without the firm I work for getting upset.
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Thanks I've got a good XML sitemap with Google but still do not have that fine stuff. I'll have a gander at the links.
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This is the answer. Google decides where people are going on your site, and determines the hierarchy and important sections, and shows them as shortcuts.
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