Sitelinks
Sitelinks make your site's snippet more informative by helping users find important information faster.
Conditions for creating sitelinks
Sitelinks are generated automatically by the Yandex robot. The robot determines the most visited sections of the site and generates sitelinks under the following conditions:
- Short and clear page names accurately reflect their content.
- Sitelinks are only created from internal links on the website.
- Sections and subsections are shown in the menu or are the most popular clicks from the page for which the sitelinks are generated.
Displaying sitelinks
Sitelinks can be shown for the site's home page and internal pages. Sitelinks can be displayed as:
- Links
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- Navigation response
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To display a particular type, the following conditions must be met:
| Condition | Links | Navigation response | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitelinks are generated. |  | | Check this on the page in Yandex.Webmaster. |
| The page is in the Top 5 Yandex search results. | | — | |
| In search results, there is no navigation response for the page that is ranked higher. | | — | |
| The algorithms should consider the page and its sitelinks a relevant response to the search query. | | — |
| Condition | Links | Navigation response | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sitelinks are generated. | | | Check this on the page in Yandex.Webmaster. |
| The page is in the Top 5 Yandex search results. | | — | |
| In search results, there is no navigation response for the page that is ranked higher. | | — | |
| The algorithms should consider the page and its sitelinks a relevant response to the search query. | | — |
Why are sitelinks no longer displayed?
When crawling the site again, the robot can remove a sitelink for the following reasons:
- It has found a more suitable page for the sitelink.
- Your site structure has changed.
- The site no longer meets the Conditions for creating sitelinks.
