Block Unwanted Sitelinks in Google Search Results | TeChZeNe

How to Block Unwanted Sitelinks in Google Search Results?

Google Sitelinks, the deeper links within a particular site that show up underneath the search result. These sitelinks enable users or readers to go directly to the most important pages of a site, which is often useful for sites having large number of webpages. Site links also have an added advantage of giving uses an idea of a website’s content by highlighting few posts that are popular in a site. This helps the user to jump directly to the landing page. Optimizing these landing pages help you reduce bounce rate.

Google uses an algorithm to generate site link for a website. So the structure completely depends upon the Google algorithm.

Fact : Google only display site links for a site when it has at least three sitelinks available.

However if you think the sitelink that is appearing in Google is not appropriate or relevant to your niche, there is a procedure to block those site links to make them not appear in the search results.

To block a sitelink that you don’t like showing in SERPs, follow the below steps:

1. Go to Webmaster Tools -> Click on the site you want.
2. Under Site configuration, Click Sitelinks. Google will display a list of sitelinks if your website has them.
3. Click “Block” next to the sitelinks you want to remove. Also you have to mention the reasons why you are blocking the links – it will help Google to improve its sitelink algorithm.
   
4. It will take some time to see the changes you have made to be visible.

Tags: Google Webmaster Tools