Clickable links in Google SERP
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Hi,
I came across clickable links appearing below the meta description in Google SERP. The links are not necessarily the top pages for that particular domain and sometimes tend to reflect the newly added stock.
Is there a way to determine what factors account for this?
Thanks,
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Thank you Keri! Much appreciated.
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Here's a blog post Google made about this in 2009 that may help.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/04/one-line-sitelinks.html
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Thanks for finding the thread. It was very helpful.
But if you look at the screenshot, you can notice that these links do not have their meta descriptions or even a snippet of their meta desc shown unlike the usual sitelinks. And looks like each link have unique MD thereby no case of duplicates.
I would like to understand if there is a particular scenario when just the links show up without a description along.
Thanks
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Hi There,
I think this has already been answered here - http://www.seomoz.org/q/has-anyone-found-a-way-to-get-site-links-in-the-serps
Thanks,
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