WP Silo Building Plugin

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Hi Warriors,

I am looking for a WP plugin that will organize into categories and link to previous all existing posts on an existing blog.

Please help

Boris V
#search engine optimization #building #plugin #seo #silo #wordpress
  • Banned
    Your not building a silo with plugins, it's just not going to happen. A silo is more than just adding links, it's also about removing the typical fluff from an average blog/site/page.
  • I've just recently built a massive site in a SILO structure. Took me weeks after custom modding my own theme.

    The only plugin I used was to show different sidebars depending on the pages.

    The pages/sidebars all need to be done manually. You want more juice going to more searched pages. E.G. if you're writing reviews, you want more links to the most searched food processor, and less to the least searched.

    It's maths plain and simple. You need to understand the concept of PageRank and figure out how to correctly distribute juice among the supporting pages, while keeping them all relevant and ensuring the main central SILO hub maintains the most juice..

    Then you need to manually control internal linking between the pages within the SILO.

    It's a downwards structure, but it needs to be interlinked correctly to distribute PageRank.

    I'd suggest reading up more.
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    • I feel for you, with the theme I've developed can achieve what you've described that's took you weeks in minutes IF posts are categorized with tight niching in mind.

      Silo link structures can be achieved in an automated way if a site is planned correctly and the right features exist in a theme (not as easy with plugins). I automatically create silo link structures using categories, only automatically link posts from within the same categories.

      For example the Popular Jokes widget at Political Jokes only links to political jokes. Go to one of the political jokes and the category tagcloud that's in the footer of categories isn't loaded, so over 90% of the automated links from the WordPress posts are related to political jokes. Go to posts in another category and the Popular Jokes widget only links to other posts in the same category.

      I've spent no time silioing the links on that site, added two widgets:

      Popular Jokes widget which loads sitewide, but only grabs posts from the categories the post is in (so no sitewide links) and a category tagcloud widget which only loads on the home page and categories (doesn't load on posts/pages).

      The above took 5 minutes to achieve (setup 2 widgets). Obviously can achieve better if I manually created even tighter manual links from sidebars (or even better with contextual links in the content), but it's not an important site, don't have the time to create hundreds of custom link widgets that only link to related pages manually (used to do it that way, but takes too long).

      Next step is being able to achieve similar with the navigation menu, currently sitewide and links to some of the most popular pages traffic wise. Would be good to build multiple nav menus and set them to load for specific categories/posts like you can with custom nav menus added as widgets if you use a theme with widget control (mine does) or use a plugin like the Display Widgets plugin.

      David
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  • I build mine the old fashioned way. Html and some php includes to make life easier. WP is too much hassle to get rid of all that you don't need/want.
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    • Banned
      Wordpress will do whatever you tell it to do, it's HTML/PHP.

      I've attached a bare minimum Wordpress theme that took less than 5 min. to make in Notepad++. The entire theme source code is below.

      My point is 99.99% of Wordpress code you see in WP themes is optional.


      Here's the index.php file:

      Code:
      <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Simple Theme</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>">
</head>
<body>
<h1>Simple Theme</h1>
<p>This is an example of a simple Wordpress theme.</p>
</body>
</html>



      Here's the style.css file:

      Code:
      /*Theme Name: Yukon Simple Theme
Theme URI: http://www.warriorforum.com/members/yukon.html
Description: A bare minimum Wordpress theme example.
Version: 1.0
Author: Yukon
Author URI: http://www.warriorforum.com/members/yukon.html
Tags: simple theme, simple, theme, yukon
*/
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  • Banned
    It's a bare minimum example showing WP is simply HTML/PHP.

    I don't care what anyone does with it.
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