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An Electric Yamaha R1 MotorcycleGot Some Sitelinks But Lost My PR
Surprisingly I searched in Google last night and found that two of my sites (including this blog) now have the coveted sitelinks:
I think Google could have done a better job with the links, but I’ll take what I can get 
I wonder how they decide what goes in there. I could have sworn reading somewhere that you can adjust or suggest the links in Webmaster Tools, but I only see the option to block a link:
I also surprisingly realized that my page rank for this blog went away completely. I’m assuming Google penalized me for selling Text Link Ads on the sidebar. With my new design, I’ll be removing TLA, and will only be running text links that have a rel=nofollow. Hopefully Google will unpenalize (sp?) me then. Even though I have no page rank, it hasn’t really affected my traffic from Google. Here’s a chart of the past 30 days of Google (excluding Google Images) traffic:
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David Bradley
04/02/2008 6:10 amI was pretty pleased to discover one after the other all my sites showed up with Sitelinks. It’s impossible to tell whether it was my navigational and structure changes made back in December ‘07 that did the trick or just that Google decided all sites over a certain age were now worthy. Of course, they’re only really worth anything if you have a known brand domain name as that’s the only time they show up in the SERPs, but at least it shows Google cares, and I didn’t lose my main site’s PR7 in the process.
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