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Hi,

Anyone know how to get the following layout for your results in Google?

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That layout is called "sitelinks" — the extra intra-site links Google sometimes shows beneath a main result. As noted, Google decides what to show; practical work on site structure and indexing is the way to influence it. Below are focused, actionable steps that still apply today.

  • Keep a clear site hierarchy and visible navigation. Important sections should be reachable from the homepage in a few clicks and use consistent, descriptive anchor text.
  • Give each top-level page a unique, concise title tag and meta description. Duplicate or generic titles make it hard for Google to pick useful sitelinks.
  • Use accessible HTML navigation and breadcrumb markup (Schema.org BreadcrumbList) so Google can parse section relationships reliably. Avoid burying main links entirely in JavaScript without fallback.
  • Verify the site in Google Search Console, submit an XML sitemap, and use URL Inspection to confirm important pages are indexed.
  • If you do not want a page to appear as a sitelink, prevent it from being indexed with a noindex or canonical tag. The old manual "demote sitelinks" control is no longer available, so removal/noindex is the practical remedy.
  • Reduce thin or duplicated pages and consolidate similar content so Google has a small set of strong candidates for sitelinks.

Quick audit workflow: crawl the site with a site auditor, map navigation and title-tag problems, fix navigation/titles/breadcrumb markup, update robots or noindex where needed, then resubmit sitemap and request reindexing. Expect results to appear gradually; sitelink behavior is driven by crawling and usage signals, so changes can take weeks to show up.

For : start by verifying the site in Search Console, running a crawl to find duplicate titles and orphan pages, then tidy the top-level navigation and reindex.

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As with anything Google it's all part of an algorithm that no one but Google knows. The one common factor is that this typically occurs only for the top ranked site and is usually a major brand/popular site. You can read more about it in Matt Cutt's blog.

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hmmmm interesting..

thanks for that! ill have a gander at that link

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