how do i get rid of posts appearing below my page in search?

[mugatea]

there are some posts/pages I dont want to appear below my listing when i search for my biz. I'm sure there is a way to do it but when i google the only results i get are posts about removing urls from google which I dont want to do. See pic for more info. I want to be able to exclude some posts circled in red from appearing in that list, but not from google.

 

[fisicx]

You can’t. If you don’t want these to appear you need to block the search engines from indexing the site.

 

[StephenSumner]

There are ways, however, to promote or give Google the hint at least that you want other pages to be shown here.

 

[fisicx]

Agreed, but it's not easy and you can really mess up your ranking if you get it wrong.

 

[Alan]

You can’t. If you don’t want these to appear you need to block the search engines from indexing the site.

You can noindex specific pages not the whole site but

in that list, but not from google.

You can't have it both ways

The only solution is to create better and more relevant posts that you do want to appear and hope the site link algorithm prefers them. Google recon their algorithm works out what is most relevant to users, that is why they removed the ability to demote sitelinks a year or so back.

So it there is stuff that it is showing that you don't think users want, then its a problem with your content that you ned to work on.

To me, those site links seem relevant.

 

[fisicx]

You can noindex specific pages not the whole site

Yes, that's what I meant.

How many people search for BDWS?

 

[Alan]

How many people search for BDWS?

lol is that the search term being tested?

'dog walking bishopton' no site links !!

I think the OP is over thinking.

 

[StephenSumner]

Agreed, but it's not easy and you can really mess up your ranking if you get it wrong.

It's not that tricky if you promote the pages you want to be visible correctly and ensure internal linking structure is set-up correctly, it should not "mess" anything up if you are careful.

 

[StevePoster]

Google created those sitelinks and that is according to your structured site pages. I'm wondering why do you want to remove those sitelinks. Its great to featured your site pages for the visitors.

 

[Bruce.D]

These links are good to have. There are more chance of the users clicking your links.

 

[mugatea]

I don't want "how to be a dog walker" appearing for those that search for my business. I dont want to give a helping hand to local businesses or give local people ideas. I made the choice to move that "How to be a dog walker" post to another site on Sunday. I 301'd it. I've went to webmaster tools twice to fetch post and yet on google they still show old url for the original link and not the new url. I'm wondering if they are ignoring new url???

 

[Bruce.D]

I would suggest writing another article on your site with different topic and 301 this URL to the new URL.

 

[websensejim]

Can I ask why you published an article on how to be a dog walker ? I can see no benefit to your business there.

 

[fisicx]

I've went to webmaster tools twice to fetch post and yet on google they still show old url for the original link and not the new url. I'm wondering if they are ignoring new url???

They just haven't caught up yet

 

[mugatea]

OK thanks Graham, I did wonder. Will just wait.

websensejim,I did it just for fun. Didn't mind until it took off.

 

[SuperLiamUK]

Really simple way to do this is to use your robots.txt and the "Disallow:" method to stop search engines indexing certain pages.

However, in any case the space in Google search results is worth money to someone, the more links showing from your website the bigger the space you take, the more authoritative your website looks to potential visitors. Personally, I would keep them all on there.