Google Launches Several Improvements To Sitelinks

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* “Sub-sitelinks” in expanded sitelinks. [launch codename "thanksgiving"] This improvement digs deeper into megasitelinks by showing sub-sitelinks instead of the normal snippet.
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* ''“Sub-sitelinks” in expanded sitelinks. [launch codename "thanksgiving"] This improvement digs deeper into megasitelinks by showing sub-sitelinks instead of the normal snippet.''
  
* Better ranking of expanded sitelinks. [project codename "Megasitelinks"] This change improves the ranking of megasitelinks by providing a minimum score for the sitelink based on a score for the same URL used in general ranking.
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* ''Better ranking of expanded sitelinks. [project codename "Megasitelinks"] This change improves the ranking of megasitelinks by providing a minimum score for the sitelink based on a score for the same URL used in general ranking.''
  
* Sitelinks data refresh. [launch codename "Saralee-76"] Sitelinks (the links that appear beneath some search results and link deeper into the site) are generated in part by an offline process that analyzes site structure and other data to determine the most relevant links to show users. We’ve recently updated the data through our offline process. These updates happen frequently (on the order of weeks).
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* ''Sitelinks data refresh. [launch codename "Saralee-76"] Sitelinks (the links that appear beneath some search results and link deeper into the site) are generated in part by an offline process that analyzes site structure and other data to determine the most relevant links to show users. We’ve recently updated the data through our offline process. These updates happen frequently (on the order of weeks).''
  
* Less snippet duplication in expanded sitelinks. [project codename "Megasitelinks"] We’ve adopted a new technique to reduce duplication in the snippets of expanded sitelinks.
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* ''Less snippet duplication in expanded sitelinks. [project codename "Megasitelinks"] We’ve adopted a new technique to reduce duplication in the snippets of expanded sitelinks.''
  
 
That “dig deeper” link, by the way, links to Inception on Know Your Meme. You might find the other link from the list a bit more useful though. It goes to a blog post from Google’s Inside Search blog from last summer, talking about the evolution of sitelinks, when they launched full-size links (with a URLs and one line of snippet text) and an increase to the maximum number of sitelinks per query (from 8 to 12).  
 
That “dig deeper” link, by the way, links to Inception on Know Your Meme. You might find the other link from the list a bit more useful though. It goes to a blog post from Google’s Inside Search blog from last summer, talking about the evolution of sitelinks, when they launched full-size links (with a URLs and one line of snippet text) and an increase to the maximum number of sitelinks per query (from 8 to 12).  

Latest revision as of 05:42, 8 May 2012

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