Google’s Listings Of Internal Site Links For Top Search Results

<div style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Sometimes when you see the top search result in Google, under it is a list of links to other pages on the same site. Ever wondered how and why that happens?</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> For example, a search for “wordpress” shows the wordpress.org page at the top of the search engine results page, with a link to the site, and a snippet of text from the wordpress home page. Then under that are links to other pages on that site, including; Download, Hosting, Extend, Blog, and “More results from wordpress.org.”</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Here’s an image, from the US Patent and Trademark Office, of a result for the search “hp” which shows a link to the HP web site at the top of the results, and additional links to pages from that site:</div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <img alt="image from the US Patent and Trademark Office showing a search results page with additional links from the top search result displayed." height="272" src="http://www.seobythesea.com/wp-images/siteindex.gif" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="350" /></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span id="more-406" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px; margin-bottom: 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> I’ve had a few people ask me how Google does that, and while I could provide some ideas, I couldn’t provide more than that. Google published a patent application this week which gives a little more insight into the process.</div>

Google’s Listings Of Internal Site Links For Top Search Results

Sometimes when you see the top search result in Google, under it is a list of links to other pages on the same site. Ever wondered how and ...

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