> How to get sitelinks under your result in Google: why they cannot be switched on, the five practices Google lists that help, and how to remove one. - Canonical: https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/how-to-get-sitelinks/ --- # How to get sitelinks in Google search results Sitelinks are the extra links to a site's inner pages that Google sometimes shows beneath a result. Google states that they are automated: no setting, markup or request turns them on. What a site owner controls is the structure Google reads, and Google lists what helps: clear titles and headings, a logical structure, and concise links between the pages that matter. Updated 6 October 2026 ## What sitelinks are Google’s definition is that sitelinks are links from the same domain, clustered together under a text result. A searcher sees the main result and, beneath it, direct links to pages such as services, prices or contact. Google says it shows sitelinks only when it thinks they will be useful to the searcher. If a site’s structure does not let its systems find good sitelinks, or the links are not relevant to the search, none are shown. ## Why they cannot be requested Google’s documentation says that, at the moment, sitelinks are automated. No field in Search Console and no markup on the page asks for them. Anyone offering to add sitelinks to a result is offering to improve the structure Google reads, which is the only route. ## What Google says helps Google lists five practices. - Page titles and headings that are informative, relevant and compact. - A logical site structure that is easy to navigate. - Links to important pages from other relevant pages. - Internal link text that is concise and relevant. - No repetition of the same content across pages. ## What that means on a real site Three checks cover most of it. 1. Every main page has its own title and one main heading, and the two agree. 2. The main pages are linked from the navigation on every page, with the same short wording each time. 3. No two pages compete for the same subject. Our guide to [writing title tags and meta descriptions](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/how-to-write-title-tags-and-meta-descriptions/) covers the first, and [what a technical SEO audit covers](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/what-a-technical-seo-audit-covers/) shows how structure is checked. ## How to remove a sitelink Google’s advice for an unwanted sitelink is to remove the page from the site or to add a noindex tag to it. Both take the page out of Google’s results entirely, so use them only for a page that should not be found at all. ## The rest of the result Sitelinks are one of five parts of a result that a site can influence. Our guide to [changing how your website appears on Google](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/how-to-change-how-your-website-appears-on-google/) covers the title, the description, the site name and the icon. ## Questions people ask ### Can I choose which sitelinks Google shows? No. Google states that sitelinks are automated, and that it may incorporate site owner input in the future. A page can be kept out of them by removing it from the site or adding a noindex tag. ### How long does it take to get sitelinks? Google gives no timescale, because nothing switches sitelinks on. Google shows them when it judges them useful for the search and when the site's structure lets its systems find good ones. ### Why did my sitelinks disappear? Sitelinks are chosen for each search, so they change as Google's reading of the site changes. Renamed pages, a new structure or fewer internal links to a page can each alter what Google selects. ## Free competitor gap report Sitelinks follow from a structure Google can read. Name up to three competitors and we compare how your site is organised and linked with how theirs are, then send you where the structure is costing you. 1. Speed and technical health, side by side 2. On-page SEO and site structure 3. The content they are found for and you are not 4. Who holds the searches that matter in your market 5. A prioritised list of what to fix first [Request your free report by email](mailto:contact@hadalmedusa.com?subject=Competitor%20gap%20report%3A%20Guide%3A%20How%20to%20get%20sitelinks%20in%20Google%20search%20results&body=Website%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AWhere%20you%20compete%20(area%2C%20country%20or%20countries)%3A%0D%0A%0D%0ACompetitors%20to%20compare%20against%20(up%20to%20three)%3A%0D%0A%0D%0AAnything%20else%20we%20should%20know%3A%0D%0A%0D%0A) - **Address** — contact@hadalmedusa.com - **Include** — your site; up to three competitors; where you compete ## More guides - [Why a competitor outranks you, and how to check](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/why-a-competitor-outranks-you/) - [What a technical SEO audit covers](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/what-a-technical-seo-audit-covers/) - [A local SEO checklist for UK businesses](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/local-seo-checklist-uk/) - [All guides](https://hadalmedusa.com/guides/) - [On-site SEO: what the service includes](https://hadalmedusa.com/services/seo/)