How does xenforo achieve pretty google search results?

[Rho Delta]

Search 8wayrun for example. The way google displays the site description and pages is very pretty. What was the method used to achieve this? I am trying to get something similar to work on a drupal site I own but it does not look good at all in search results right now.

 

[Brandon Sheley]

Those are called Site Links and it has nothing to do with the site running on xf.

 

[taylor_smith]

Using Google Webmasters, you can try to minimize the ranking of certain urls, but it's not possible (far as I know) to force the appearance of sitelinks in results. Snippets, you have a bit more control over.

 

[Rho Delta]

How does it pick up the site description that we enter in the ACP? Mainly what I need is my site description to show up...

 

[taylor_smith]

Ah, that description is the snippet. You can suggest to Google what you'd like your snippet to be by adding your text in your title. E.g., <title>Stratics is proud to serve as a career path in gaming. We are a family - welcome home!</title> XF is set just to show your board title there, but if you'd like to add more to it, you can edit <title></title> in the PAGE_CONTAINER template.

 

[Brandon Sheley]

How does it pick up the site description that we enter in the ACP? Mainly what I need is my site description to show up...

It's pulled directly from your title and meta tags on those pages.

 

[MagnusB]

Much of it comes from semantic html; http://xenforo.com/community/threads/semantic-html.892/

Such things as microdata in links help google better display their search results. Some site links have to be identified by Google Bot though..