Sitelinks Not Appearing
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We've have been ranking number 1 for all brand related terms but yet still sitelinks won't appear.
- We have submitted an xml sitemap
- We have a front facing sitemap in the footer
- We have a clear hierarchy of pages on the site
- We have a strong link profile
- We have a few hundred visits a month from organic search
- We are running Google Shopping ads
Is there anything else that I should be doing?
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It might be difficult to pin point it and we are still not out of the park, as we still need to get sitelinks for the normal brand phrase with the spacing.
Thanks for your help!
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Don't forget all you did so that you can help others going forward! Really happy for you!
Robert -
Sitelinks are now appearing for the brand first and second name together without the spacing.
So we are getting there!
Thanks for all your help!
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Okay the Sitelinks Search Box is in place and submitted to webmaster tools.
We have demoted some pages that aren't relevant in an attempt to kick start the sitelinks.
We've updated Google Plus and we are going to ask future bloggers to link to category pages as well as the homepage and product pages going forward.
Something has to work!
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I've passed it on to the dev team to implement and we will give it a go.
I've increase our link profile through blogger outreach and updated our Google Plus page more regularly with links back to the site.
Let's see what happens!
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Steven,
I know we got the best answer possible for this, but I want you to try some structured data to see if you can "force" sitelinks:
Go read this on developer tools and then implement it: https://developers.google.com/structured-data/slsb-overview
It is markup to get a searchbox on sitelinks.
Then you and some friends start searching randomly for product x yoursite.com
Let's see what happens!!
BTW I am just on a mission about this now that I have more info. Cannot see a reason for them not to afford you sitelinks!
Best
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I would really like to try it myself. If you will PM me, I will check it and get back with you and keep all confidential. Just as curious as you are.
Robert
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Thanks for your help!
No, sadly the sitelinks appear for no brand related URL searches.
Is there any other actions that we can take?
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Sitelinks are totally at the behest of Google. So, they may or may not come to you. Typically, it takes a bit of time but not always by any means. Are you seeing them when you search on your domain: your domain is HotTamaleFactory.com. If you search on Hot Tamale Factory .com and it comes up are you seeing sitelinks?
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