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Meet The New Google Sitelinks: Good Or Bad For Online Reputation Management?

Google finally announced the mega, huge and jumbo sitelinks we have seen them testing for months.

Let me take you through the history of Sitelinks, even before they were named sitelinks.

In July 2005, Google had this format:

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Then a month later, it looked more like this:

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Here is one from 2006:

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Then can other forms, I’ll skip some, but here are the anchor based sitelinks:

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Then also the two column view:

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Heck, even AdWords sitelinks:

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But now the Jumbo sitelinks are here:

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The algorithm has changed for how Google handles this, they will show up to twelve results plus likely show less indented results for the same domain. Is this a good thing for online reputation management?

For more of our coverage on Google Sitelinks see our Google Sitelinks category.

What are your thoughts?

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