Linking outside silo structure

I think your over thinking it, it's no big deal that one link or so goes back to the same page. I'm sure all your pages link back to your homepage right...? Each page on my bigger websites just link to relevant content within their article, no need for making every article on a subject such as "fish" never links back to omega 3 benefits which could be in the "nutrition" silo.

Let's see what others say but while doing my silos I don't think it's that big of a deal...

Quick question...why did you build your silo site?

Was it because you love building websites, because you love the subject matter, or because you want to build traffic to a money page?

If it's the first two, leave the link out altogether and have some fun.

If it's the third reason - you eventually want to make some money - you have to put eyeballs on your offer.

The whole idea of building silos is to give the articles in the silo more thematic strength so that when you do link out to your money page, those links have more weight. You want people to leave your silo site to visit your money page. And a single link out to a related page isn't going to hurt your SEO enough to matter.

John is right on the money with what he posted. In order to monetize your efforts you need to have at least one link connecting the silos to your money page. Otherwise the silos in themselves would be worthless.

"Siloing best practices generally recommend against linking from one silo support page to another silo support page because the theme of support pages might be diluted by links from unrelated pages. Any cross-silo link from a low-level page should be directed to a theme landing page because landing pages have a high volume of inlinks and will only be minimally affected by a small amount of subject dilution. Before the change in nofollow behavior, Bruce Clay recommended including a nofollow attribute on all links between support pages across theme boundaries. In light of the change, every link must be evaluated on its own merits. Evaluate each internal link by asking questions like, "Why link here?" and "What value does this add for the reader?"

Linking to Pages Not Targeted for Ranking

There are usually several pages within a site that are not targeted for ranking. Many of the pages linked from a global footer are examples of this, like a site's copyright page or privacy policy. It makes sense that SEOs would want to prohibit the transfer of link value to pages not intended for ranking. A recommended solution is to include blocks of links to pages not targeted for ranking within an iframe.


The iframe element removes content from the page, effectively placing it out of sight for search engine spiders. Include links to pages not intended for ranking within an iframe, but if that solution is not possible, then the use of the nofollow link element should be considered. Google has not recommended against all uses of the nofollow element, but has encouraged an educated and judicious use of this powerful link element."


The problem is that i have no idea how to use iframes in this situation...anyone?

Whoa there buddy, you need to slow down. You're nowhere close to where siloing makes sense. Not sure why you are thinking about nofollow or iframing either. I think you should look up those two again and really understand what they mean.

Keep it simple.