You might be doing well on reviews, but can you see your business when you search for the review site?
More so than I’ve ever seen before, Google’s showing specific local businesses in the sitelinks when I just type in “Yelp,” for example.
I also see specific businesses show up when I search for Urbanspoon – sorry, Zomato.
I’m not seeing this when I search for most other review sites, and I’ve mostly seeing restaurants so far, but it appears you don’t have to be a restaurant to get one of these sitelinks.
The common thread I’ve seen so far is these places all have a decent number of reviews. Also, the jewelry store in the sitelink is BBB-accredited, which helps its prominence in BBB.org, and may in one way or another make it more likely to show up to nearby people as a sitelink.
City-specific sitelinks have shown up for several years, but this is the first I’m seeing of sitelinks that (1) are specific to the city you’re searching in and (2) are for specific local businesses.
I am seeing the same results on mobile.
I’m not seeing those sorts of sitelinks in Bing, though:
It seems recent, Google-specific, non-device-specific, and most noticeable in search results for Yelp.
If you’ve got a good reputation on a given review site, this could be party time.
Have you been noticing more business-specific sitelinks when you search for a review site? If so, on which site(s)?
Besides getting reviews, what do you think a business needs to do to show up there as a sitelink?
What do you make of this, in general?
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Not yet, here in Edmonton, Canada 🙂
Good to know! Thanks, Andy.
I do see it for Yelp … one link for the nearest town, but also links for towns hundreds of miles away, a link for the ‘restaurants’ category and one for one specific local restaurant. So, yep, I do see this.
Yeah, Google doesn’t consistently pull relevant sitelinks in general. My BBB example contained a sitelink for the San Diego chapter (!).