How can I get Google to display sitelinks under search results when my website shows up?  When my website shows up in position 1 which it does for a couple of keywords it displays sitelinks, but whenever we show up in any other position than the first one, we don't have any sitelinks displayed at all.  I know it's not a matter of just being in the top position or not because I see sites all the time that are in any number of position in the search results and occasionally I'll see a site that has sitelinks even though they're like half way down page 3 or something..
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My website used to have sitelinks and now it doesn't. It's very possible that it's due to changing the website to a sidebar design instead of having an "interstitial" type landing page which limited the number of choices, but I'm not sure.  Here is how sitelinks might look for a site:    What are some things that I can do to improve my chances of getting sitelinks?
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My urls do not seem to have my main keywords in them. Is this bad for SEO? Should I include them?   Of course I do not mean actually writing one keyword after each other, but have an organically / naturally readably URL which makes sense to the user and to SEO, if at all, hence my question.
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I have a website with a unique name, already indexed and with a perfect SEO. Although there are no websites with the same unique name, when I'm searching on Google I found my homepage listed on the 6th page.  Why something like this happens, and what can I do to improve?
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My website is ad listing for boats, boats' engines, boat rentals, etc (www.mynautics.com).  There are ads listed on multiple pages. I have finished (not jet seen on link above) pagination:   added prev added next   On some pages (sorting, etc.) I also added canonical relation.  Now I want to add pages to sitemap generator and I am not sure if I should add all URLs for example:   example.com/list/page/1  example.com/list/page/2  example.com/list/page/3 example.com/list/page/4   Or should I just add example.com/list?
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I've had my website hacked. I have cleaned it and searched google site:example.com and made a list of all the results. Removed the actual links that are OK and made a list of the ones in the format of example.com/ad0-b1fermarte54eb17chb-1244425. I've submitted these links to Google to remove and Google removed these links.  The problem here is that after my initial search, that resulted in 200 URLs which we've removed, other new links appeared out of nowhere. These links don't actually work anymore and return a 404 page, but Google still has these in its results.  We've tried deleting our sitemap and re-submitting it. Google has crawled it, but again, it has not removed the dummy search results.  Looking in our google webmaster console, we saw that in the coverage tab the number of indexed links spiked from 230 (normal usage) to 10.900 links - I'm guessing these are all dummy links that were infected and now cleaned.  Any magic way of having Google remove dead links automatically? Or a way to force it to recrawl the entire website?
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I submitted a new version of the sitemap index for my site in Google Search Console two days ago. Soon after submission, GSC started saying that the index was "processed successfully", and yet has continued to display zero as the number of discovered URLs.  Note that my sitemap index points to about 11000 sitemaps, which provide actual links to pages.  I'm pretty sure the format of both the sitemap index and the individual sitemaps is correct.  Screenshot:    Should I worry about this? What does it mean?  Edit on 2020-02-03:  Google finally started displaying the right number in Total discovered URLs. It must have happened sometime in January. Why so late - I have no idea...
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I have a website with couple of pages.  In the home page I have fair amount of content with required amount of keyword density. Other pages are fine and having enough amount of content whereas contact page is just a simple page with no content except a contact form.  When I search for my domain name in Google Search, on the third page I'm ranked 26, 27, 28, and the pages are:  mydomain/contact mydomain/someservice mydomain/someservice2   Whereas I am more interested to find my domain name alone in a Google search instead of inner pages; moreover I don't want to see that weird contact page appearing instead of my homepage.  If I use &lt;link rel="canonical" href="http://homepage.com/" /&gt; for all the rest pages will that help me?
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When I search on Google my companies website its rank gets distorted on my computer through previous searches, my location etc. I use private mode in my browser, but I think this is still not an accurate search.  I found some sites online that seem to check the ranking for me, but the ones I found all seem a little bit sketchy. So, how can I objectively check my search engine ranking for certain keywords?
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Possible Duplicate:          I have noticed that when I ask a question on Stack Overflow and I go into Google and search for the question, it comes up in Google in just a minute or so.  How do they do this? I want the secret!  I am a web developer and I know about most things that you can do for SEO, but I have no idea how these questions appear in Google this quickly!  I think it's amazing!
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How, within any one of the Stack Exchange sites, or from the Stack Exchange site itself, do I search and find the link to a Stack Exchange site by title, versus by content of the questions inside those sites? Specifically, the end result of the search should not return links to particular questions in that site, but only to the links to the "top" of the site such as .  This is not the same as . That is a different (albeit quite useful) use case from this one.
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Me and a friend are having a debate where she claims that every and all subdomains will get crawled/indexed by google unless you specifically tell it not to, and I'm saying that if a page isn't linked to from anywhere then it shouldn't get crawled.  For example, let's say I own example.com and I make a new subdomain with a weird  random name such as adayinthewoods.example.com and I throw a wordpress installation on there that I plan to use for testing purposes.  What would have to happen for google to start crawling and indexing this? Is google going to look at the whois records and see that I've added a subdomain in my DNS table and then start crawling it as a result? Is the fact I've installed wordpress on it making my installation "ping search engines"? How does that work? How do top level domains get crawled when it's a brand new domain? I assume the mechanism there is different from random subdomains.  What if I add a new page in my root folder called "noOneWillEverSeeThis.html", could that ever get crawled/indexed if it wasn't included in any sitemap and wasn't linked to from anywhere?  Would really appreciate a solid answer from someone that understands what's going on with this.  Thanks much
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I would like my site to display additional site links when preforming a Google Search..  How can this be achieved?
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Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though.  searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results.  However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the following options:  Showing results for xxxxxE.com Search instead for xxxxxA.com (hyperlink when clicked then it is correctly searching for our site)   Questions:   Do we need to contact Google to correct this and if yes how ? if not will it be corrected automatically when the site becomes more popular and what is the process?  How do we make the process quicker?
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when i type www.google.com how does the dns lookup work. According to my knowledge it first goes to the root server and finds out where the .com dns server is. Next it returns the ip address of that server. Next from there is finds out where the google server is. Now it returns a ip address and that would be the place where www.google.com is found.  So to resolve this two dns look ups are needed. Correct me if iam wrong.
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My domain : CreditCardPaymentGateways dot in  even after 6 months is not ranking well. Could it be due to length of it?  Also I've blocked backlinks to some directories( without nofollow) using robots.txt.  I suspect either is playing spoilsport in good rankings of my site, which I've optimized well and has least competition.
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Considering I have a website and I have millions of direct views (entering directly by URL,  not by any other URL) and that there is no links to this site anywhere else (or that this views don't generate any external link to the site), will these visits increase my positioning in search engines such as Google?  Are search engines capable of measuring direct visits rather than links from other pages?
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How do I prevent links to a particular website from showing in search results on chrome, on my mobile?  For example I want to see a video of maybe cows dancing  But I don't want to see any links related to dailymotion.com.  Is there any way I can filter those results out?  (If this doesn't belong here, please leave a comment as to where I can ask this. I feel this could be helpful for others too so I asked it here)