How to make my site's categories appear in Google results?

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Posted by pinkonomy on October 7, 2011 at 1:15pm

Hi,
I would like to make my site's categories appear in Google results.An example of this are the BBC categories.
http://www.google.gr/search?gcx=w&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=new+york+ti...

For example,you can see the categories "News","Learning English", etc

Has this nothing to do with RDFa,Google Rich snippets or microformats?

Thanks for your time

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As far as I know they don't

Posted by scor on October 7, 2011 at 2:03pm
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As far as I know they don't use Rich Snippets for that, this not part of their official Rich Snippets supported types.

Not sure what they use exactly, but I bet they just use the HTML and some ranking based mechanism to detect the urls of the main sections a site includes. For example, search for "drupal" and you will see that drupal.org also shows a set of categories, and I'm not aware of any specific format used on drupal.org to tell Google what sections the site includes. I bet however that you need good ranking before Google will display your site with categories, and you most likely need to rank #1 on search engine results page.

Thanks scor for the answer.I

Posted by pinkonomy on October 7, 2011 at 2:06pm
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Thanks scor for the answer.I have also found this one : http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

ah, there you go, that's

Posted by scor on October 7, 2011 at 2:13pm
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ah, there you go, that's exactly what you were looking for. This page seems to confirm that there is nothing you can do to explicitly set these categories, other than crafting clean HTML, which always pays off...

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