Sitelinks

The Yandex robot can generate sitelinks for you site snippet: it finds the pages most relevant to the query.

How can I help the robot find the right sitelinks?

You should observe the following conditions:

  • The main sections and pages can be accessed from the home page.

  • The site navigation is well-planned and logical.

  • Page names are short, clear and reflect their content.

  • Image links have an alt attribute that reflects their purpose.

  • Text in the <title> element for the key pages matches the page name (the page title placed, for example, in the h1 tag) and the text of links leading to this page.

    For example, if your company has a contact page and you want to make sure the robot processes it correctly:

    • Specify the “Company name” — “Contact us” or simply “Contacts” in the title element of this page.

    • On the page, there should be a title “Contacts”.

    • The text of links leading to this section from the main page and other site pages should be “Contacts”.

When the links are formed, but not yet displayed in the search results, the service will send you a notification.

  1. Viewing the sitelinks list
  2. Editing sitelinks

Viewing the sitelinks list

You can view the list of generated sitelinks in the Site information → Sitelinks section in Yandex.Webmaster. By default, the list is sorted by URL. To change the order set the Sort radio button to by weight.

The links can be marked by the following tags:

  • “new” — Recently generated link.
  • “chg” — You can choose a different name for the previously link .

If the robot finds a more suitable page for a sitelink while crawling the site it can replace the previous link with the new one. The old link is removed and displayed strikethrough. The new link is highlighted with the “new” label.

Editing sitelinks

Enable or disable the display of certain link in snippet

Click the icon next to the needed link:

  • — Display in the snippet.
  • — Don't display in the link.

Then click the Save button.

Change the link name
To form the sitelinks the robot chooses a name for each of them based on the number of data (for example, the content of the title element of the page). If there are several names for a link, click the icon to choose one of them. After editing, click Save.
Enabling or disabling all the links in the search
To remove sitelinks from display in the search results, disable the Use in search results option and click the Save button.

Once you have edited the sitelinks, the changes appear in the search results within two weeks.