Google Sitelinks Double
Shortcuts to useful pages called “Sitelinks” in Google search results have been so popular that they have now been expanded. Users get twice the links. Google recently added Sitelinks control to their Google Webmaster Tools.
Google software engineer, Jeremy Silber began with this post on the official Google blog:
During your searches you’ve most likely noticed Sitelinks, the set of links below some search results that lets you jump directly to useful pages deeper in the site. They’ve been so popular that we’ve decided to give you more: our algorithms have been working overtime and we’ve recently started showing up to eight Sitelinks per site instead of just four. These extra links let you quickly access even more areas of the top site, and all eight sitelinks together give a good overview of a site’s content.
Example from a Google search for BlueHost:
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January 11th, 2008 at 7:02 am
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March 5th, 2008 at 1:01 am
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