Unable to demote contact us & about us pages from sitelink?
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Hey all,
It's been 3 months now I demoted contact us & about us page via search console but it still appearing in my sitelink. Is there any other guidelines to be followed? Do anyone have the same experience?
Susan.
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Hey Russ, there is no canonical issues for the pages I have demoted.
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Thanks Andy. I will work on internal backlinks but the demoted pages should be removed from the sitelink to place other important pages.
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I agree here with Andy as well. Make it clear to Google what pages on your site are the most important to the users.
Also, just to make sure, I assume you have all of your site in order regarding a single canonical version of the site (ie: www vs non-www, http vs https, etc.) and that all are appropriately connected in Google Search Console? Just wanted to make sure there was no chance you might be demoting sitelinks for a different variant of your domain!
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Hi Susan,
One thing I have found to be effective with sitelinks, is internal linking.
Create an internal linking campaign to target more suitable pages and you can find these changing. That said, it's a bit odd that they still haven't been removed from Google.
I am about to Tweet John Mueller at Google with this thread to see if he has any input at all.
-Andy
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