How to get more links in google

[letsgetsilly]

I would like to know how sites can have "additional links" listed underneath their homepage in google.

When you search google for "bank of america" you can see they have a "Contact Us" page, a "Sign In" page all listed there and more.

I'd like to do this with my company, any suggestions on how?

Thanks in advance!

 

[troytime]

i believe if google thinks your site is important enough, it will use your primary navigation as those links

its not something you 'choose'

 

[letsgetsilly]

I don't know if I agree with you totally. How does google know what to add there? I think sitemaps must have something to do with it, but not sure.

 

[troytime]

you mean google sitemaps?

the site i work for has its main nav links listed in google, we haven't done anything to make it happen

 

[letsgetsilly]

Yes I am referring to Google Sitemaps in my above post. The problem is here I don't know what sitemaps actually does, but if it translates into those additional links that would be great.

It is hard to frame this question because I don't really know what technology to ask about. If you say sitemaps is the key then I am happy because I just made an xml sitemap for my company and submitted it earlier today. We'll wait to see what happens on the next re-index.

 

[troytime]

its likely that there's even more to it

stuff like pagerank and backlinks and search frequency likely play a major role in deciding whether info like that appears

 

[letsgetsilly]

So far i've added a robots.txt to my site along with sitemaps. Any other idas that may contribute to obtaining those extra links would be great. TIA

 

[troytime]

name the class around your primary navigation "main_nav" or something very similar

whats your sites URL?

 

[letsgetsilly]

as in CSS class?

kadix.com

 

[troytime]

yes, css

in your case, your best bet is to convert the graphical interface to text and css.

if thats not possible, give the tr or table with the primary nav the id of "main_nav"