SEO Milestone – Sitelinks!

May 14, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: General 

Aside from hitting the 6 month blogging mark, Google has finally given my blog sitelinks for my blog’s name: Mixed Market Arts.

While this may seem like a lame reason to post because there is nothing special about ranking for your website’s name, but it is a little more than that. Sitelinks are an automated feature of Google’s algorithm that gives a website an authority status for a specified keyword. This means that unless I do something extremely stupid, there is no reason I should ever stop ranking for that name. This also means that Google is now giving my domain, with my newly acquired pagerank 5, a good amount of trust in the eyes of the search engine, which should be later reflected across every page of the site. In simple terms, sitelinks are basically Google reminding you that you are slowly but surely growing into a ranking powerhouse, and that there is no denying that you are the only one who should rank for that term.

So now that I am an “authority listing” for Mixed Market Arts keyword, I will move onto “MixedMarketArts” and then later “Collin LaHay,” and ultimately, “Website Marketing Strategies.”

Comments

22 Comments on SEO Milestone – Sitelinks!

  1. Link Building Bible on Wed, 14th May 2008 5:00 pm

    2. Congrats bro!! I hope to have sitelinks when I hit the 6 month mark… you’re setting the bar pretty high!

  2. PublicRecordsGuy on Wed, 14th May 2008 9:26 pm

    3. Great job, and congrats. I have noticed this on a few search queries, but to have it done so quickly is cool.

  3. Exposed SEO on Thu, 15th May 2008 9:26 am

    4. Nicely done! We can now “respect your authoooriiitaaaaiii” :D

    I still however don’t get what triggers Google to think they need to give website x an authority status.

  4. Houston Web Development on Thu, 15th May 2008 10:54 am

    5. great work Collin
    make sure to setup your google webmaster tools, also add redundant navigation (contextual) in the footer of your site… Or so I read :)

  5. Jim on Thu, 15th May 2008 2:10 pm

    6. No, that’s awesome! I would brag about that for hours, haha. That’s really incredible to see you have sitelink this early in the marketing process. Congratulations! :D

  6. Chetan on Thu, 15th May 2008 8:40 pm

    7. I am sure i too would get my sitelinks very soon, seeing my own efforts with SEO and backlinks to my blog :)

    Btw Congrats!

  7. Leland on Fri, 16th May 2008 7:45 am

    8. I logged into my Google webmasters account yesterday and noticed that Google generated sitelinks for my site, yet they’re not visible live on the search engine results – even when searching for my exact site name. Any idea why this is? Or what triggers them to actually be displayed on the search engine? Thanks.

  8. Sudarshan on Fri, 16th May 2008 10:50 am

    9. WOW good work Collin,Hope You get the authority for your name too!! Good luck :)

  9. Collin LaHay on Fri, 16th May 2008 6:54 pm

    10. I am not sure why, but I have seen it for a few other bloggers in the last few months. Just keep writing + building content and you will get them in due time.

  10. online marketing on Sat, 17th May 2008 7:55 am

    11. Thanks for the heads up in connection with the Site links. Well done, we all wish for this.

  11. Leland on Sat, 17th May 2008 11:06 am

    12. Thanks for your response…and forgot to say – congrats!

  12. i need diet on Mon, 19th May 2008 12:54 am

    13. Congratulations, how you did that :)
    just wonder how goolge decide the terms listed there?

  13. ppc on Wed, 21st May 2008 4:12 pm

    14. Yeah how did you do that. I always wondered why some sites get it and others don’t. It really gives your site authority. Much higher click through rate, and you can plan your landing page optimisation.

  14. Collin LaHay on Wed, 21st May 2008 4:36 pm

    15. Content + link building + time.

    http://www.uberlinkbuilding.co.....g-success/

  15. Websites Reviewed on Wed, 21st May 2008 10:58 pm

    16. One of my blogs just got its first site links this week. They are only showing up when a search is done for the URL or for the main website Title!

    Congrats on your accomplishment!

  16. Malaysia Make money on Sat, 24th May 2008 9:04 pm

    17. Awesome result! you must did a lot of effort for your site!!! cool :)

  17. drt on Sat, 24th May 2008 11:52 pm

    18. Congratulation, Collin. It’s a belated one but better late than never,…. :lol: Also, thanks for a great website.

  18. Asia'h Epperson on Wed, 4th Jun 2008 7:32 am

    19. Congrats Colin. I must say that it must be real satisfying to see all the link building paying off. I wonder why you are targeting mixedmarketarts apart from the fact it is your domain name. Would it not be better to rank for a highly searched term?

  19. Tool Belt on Wed, 4th Jun 2008 10:38 am

    20. Wow congrats, I know that this is an older post but I just saw it. Does sitelinks just come as your PR and trust go up? Or is it a combination of things you can do?

  20. Collin LaHay on Wed, 4th Jun 2008 1:05 pm

    21. Depends on your goal.

    Eventually I plan to rank for tons of huge keywords just from domain authority (like wikipedia).

  21. Collin LaHay on Wed, 4th Jun 2008 1:07 pm

    22. Age, links, authority, PR… but mostly time. :-)

  22. adda4u on Thu, 5th Jun 2008 7:21 pm

    23. I can say mixed markets will path to new webmasters ..

    I am the example i have good time here with huge articles …

    Congrats bro …Wish u a gr8 success…

    -Sri-

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