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Ask HN: Micro formats? Or, how to make my site's google link look good?
This may be a very elementary question, but how does a site go about optimizing how it looks in google's search results? For example:
http://imgur.com/0eVWx
That isn't just a link with some text. That's a link, text, and options. Plus a search bar. I looked at the source of the page crawled by google but couldn't see any special META tags or anything. Can someone explain this to a newbie?
- nostrademons 17y agoFor the stock quote, you get it by going public. The other bits - sitelinks, search box, summary, etc. - are derived algorithmically, presumably based on where within your site visitors go. The way to get them is to become popular enough that Google can figure out which portion of your site is the most popular with visitors. Edit: Apparently it's not just popularity, it sounds like they parse navigational structure - breadcrumbs, menus, navlinks, etc. - to infer them. So make your site clean and well-designed, and get popular, and then they should show up. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334&topic=8523 http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answe...
- endlessvoid94 17y agogood resource, thanks for your answer :-)
- endlessvoid94 17y agoIt looks like these are called SiteLinks, and there isn't much info about how to get Google to add them, except for "make your site easy for their algorithm to parse". Anyone have any tips?