What to do when Demoted Sitelinks appear on search results under my main link?
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Hello all,
I had some links that i didn't want them to appear under search results (under my main domain) . Using websmaster 'sitelinks' i demoted those links and it has been almost a month and i can see those unwanted links on SERPS.
Those pages don't even have high traffic, I am not quite sure why even they appear on Google. Is there anything else i can do to remove them under main domain search results.
Thanks
Seda
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Thanks Lynn,
The pages comes up under the main page link and I think if i am not wrong, they come up because those titles are on the top navigation menu. Seems like Google ignore the demote request and show the navigation menu list. In terms of link popularity, other pages have more links than those comes up on SERPS. I will be testing a few things, if works, i'll share the details here.
Thanks again,
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Hi,
I believe the sitelinks shown are dependent on what main page is being shown in the serp results so maybe you have demoted the link for the homepage but not for some other page that is being brought up for specific searches? If so you can add the specific page that is bringing up the result in the GWT sitelinks admin page and then demote the link you do not want for this page also.
If this is not the case worth making sure you have not made a typo or anything. You should see a list of demoted links and the dates they are valid to. When I have demoted links it took a few days to filter through but certainly not a month. Might also be worth looking at where this page is being linked to in your site, if it is a non important page but has a 'prominent' sitewide link on all pages then this can lead google to conclude it is an important page and if it is being linked to from outside domains this can be reinforced even more. Linking to it from less of your internal pages can sometimes help reduce its importance, but really the GWT demotion tool usually works pretty well so I would check the homepage vs internal pages and any typo issues first.
Hope that helps!
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