Google sitelinks not getting generated

Google sitelinks not getting generated - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google-search, 404, crawl-errors, sitelinks to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Google sitelinks not getting generated.Problem :

Even though our website is indexed by google, sitelinks are not getting generated. It's been almost 2 years now and still not sitelinks. Google webmaster tools has a lot of 404 errors. Are these 404 errors making it difficult for google to generate sitelinks ?

Solution :

Yes, those 404 are making it difficult for Google to crawl you.

As Google starts crawling a site, the more trusted, valued, updated, etc. the site gets, the more Google crawls it again, maybe crawling it more often and maybe crawling it deeper into the site structure.

Those 404 are treated as really bad links to Google that decrease that value of your site. All those 404 include old/deprecated links from your sitemaps, broken links inside your pages or even old/broken/malformed links on other sites, pointing to yours, that Google thinks that are/were valuable sometime.

In my opinion, 18 months is way too much for those 404 to be there. Your site has been losing value all this time and it's probably been crawled maybe once or twice a month or a week, and only a little amount of pages.

The first step should be to FIX THEM as soon as possible.

• If the content is still in your site, 301 them to your actual site content URL.


• If they're no longer available, remove them from your sitemaps, ask the other sites to remove then from their sites, and remove them from your site!

While your 404s are been removed/crawled again, update your sitemaps and read some blogs around about it

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-crawl-errors-in-google-webmaster-tools

https://moz.com/blog/how-to-avoid-an-seo-disaster-when-changing-your-website

PS: This is usually a slow process, so.. patience

If the issue about google-search, 404, crawl-errors, sitelinks is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.