Wrong sitelinks (from the old homepage on the domain)
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Hi there, I am quite a novice when it comes to SEO. So you'll have to forgive me if the questions has already been asked by someone before me. The question is about site links in google.
Google does generate som sitelinks, but some of the are seemingly generated on the basis of the old homepage. All the sitelinks corresponds to menu items, but two of those items exist only in the homepage on the domain.
The fact that the SERP entry is not exactly as we wanted it to be is not strange at alle. We have yet to write in a propper metadescription, and optimize for the right keywords. Because that, I gather from my research, has a great role to play for googles decisions about which lins to use as sitelinks.
But I do not understand why google decides to use link names on a page that is no longer there as sitelinks on a new page without those link names.
I would like to understand this before experimenting with keywords and metadescriptions.
I will appreciate an explanation as well as any advice on the relation been keywords and metadescritions.
Happy day, Plovsky
First, some context:
1. We just changed the homepage on our domain, pointen the domain name to the IP the new webhost and the new website.
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Thank you Paul! I guess it patience is what is needed. But also, I would like to be prepared and help google to decide on which menu-items to display as sitelinks.
As I understand it, the reason for the confusion between the site-links from the old and the new site on the domain is that google does not see the new site as a completely new site. It just see change. It has kept some of the old information and registered some of the new. So I guess the follow up question is this. Is it right that the search engine robots are quick to register new content (say posts and pages) and slower to register changes in the architecture of a site?
plovsky
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If you've just changed the website to a new one, you're going to have to wait for Google to fully crawl and index the new version before you can expect any change in the sitelinks, Plovsky. This can take anywhere from several days to a couple of weeks, depending on the authority of the site.
Hope that helps?
Paul
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