My site links have gone from a mega site links to several small links under my SERP results in Google. Any ideas why?
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A site I have currently had the mega site links on the SERP results. Recently they have updated the mega links to the smaller 4 inline links under my SERP result. Any idea what happened or how do I correct this?
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Have you changed your homepage drastically lately? When you look at the text version of your Google cache there are only a couple links in there. Did other links exist previously? Perhaps Google is taking them out because they no longer exist on your home page?
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No. We have been consolidating international sites and condensing them by language and not GEO location. I was worried that his would become a issue.
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I'm betting you got hit with Google's Freshness update. Are those minor site links new pages? Do they get updated with content more frequently than your major ones?
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