We’ve owned the domain pelotonics.com forever, yet Google’s sitelinks algorithm never seemed to give us any love! I personally think if you have sitelinks associated to your website, it makes your site look more professional when it comes up in Google.
According to the Sitelinks help page,
“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.”
I thought that answer was ridiculous; and since I’m a programmer by trade, I realized if I reverse engineer top tiered websites that have sitelinks, I’ll find a pattern and do the same for Pelotonics. This is what I found…
THE FIRST OR SECOND THING ON YOUR WEBSITE, HAVE A <UL><LI> LIST OF THE TOP LEVEL LINKS FOR YOUR WEBSITE.
That’s what I did, and within 2 weeks, we had sitelinks! Take that Google for not hiring me 5 years ago! haha, just playing…
I think Google should at least give webmasters a best practices guide so the Google Bot can read your site better.
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