Help with google search results

Zach23

Hello,

I'm trying to fix up my search results on google. When you search for me "Zach Mahone" My website is the first one to come up however its weird. I says Zach Mahone and an bunch of random stuff underneath it, then the links underneath it are random keywords and take you to random pictures. Can someone please point me in the right direction so I can change it that it reads something like.

Wedding, Architecture and event photographer - Zach Mahone
Zach mahone is a .... blah blah blah

Then make the links be:

Gallery, Sale & Hire, About, etc.

See the attachment to see what I am talking about. Thanks!

bobbyhero

Hello

You can specify what your site's description is (in Google) by logging-in to your SmugMug Account, and navigating to Control Panel > Settings > Search Engine. This will then be indexed by Google, and will show up on your site's listing after they crawl your information (could take several weeks).

For more see:
http://help.smugmug.com/customer/portal/articles/93327-search-engines-and-seo

The sub-links you're referring to are called Sitemaps :-) A great DGrin discussion on these (and how to implement them) can be found at:
http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=190216&highlight=smugmug+sitemap

As always, if you need more clarification, just head over to http://help.smugmug.com :-)

All the best,
Bobby
Support Hero

pgman

Just a reminder: Free smugmug seo optimization pdf document:

http://photographers-seo.com/downloads/SmugMug-SEO-How-to-Guide.pdf

richpepp

The links under your main link are a different matter though, you can't control those very much. They are automatically generated by the Google if it thinks that your site is structured in a way that makes it appropriate. You can't define what the links are or what the text is - the best you can do is remove the links if you think they are inappropriate and to do that you have to sign up for Google Webmaster Tools (which you should do anyway).

The links are called 'sitelinks' and you can get more info. here
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=47334

Zach23

Awesome! Thank you.