SEO friendly Website Structure

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Hey guys,

I've been reading some stuff and hoping that someone would be experienced enough with on-site SEO to shed some light.

This one guy mentioned the importance of "siloing," or avoiding "theme bleeding," meaning to keep all your different topics clearly separated. He said that inner-linking between different sub topics can cause the spiders to devalue your site as it becomes more difficult to figure out the main focus of it. Is there any merit to this at all? How would you do your inner linking?

And secondly, what are your favorite themes for converting adsense wise? I'm thinking of buying flexsqueeze for affiliate sites, but I don't think it will be a good fit for adsense though (too fancy perhaps?)

Cheers
#search engine optimization #friendly #seo #structure #website
  • SEO Friendly structure means:
    All your pages are interlinking properly.
    (People deny) - but surely use meta-tags
    URL structure can be any - whether it ends in php - html or just / all will do

    hope this helps...
  • make a site on one subject and interlink the pages.
  • Take a look at any BIG site, tell me what you see.

    It's probably the exact opposite of the advice you've been given.

    Check the dates on where you got that information from, it's probably expired, either really old, or just a dupe of old information.
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  • How important is designing?

  • Not at all. Interlinking will leave a very good impression for your site in front of the search engine as well as it will make your website very much user freindly. As much interlinking is possible you should allow on your site, This will help a lot from the SEO point of view.
  • SEO friendly site must be neat and clean and never try to use java, more image and flash files on sites because and take too much time to crawl your site and also increase your site loading time.
  • 1. Interlinking
    2. Breadcrumb links
    3. Sitemap in XML
    4. SEO Friendly Page Titles
    5. H1, H2, H3 formatting
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    • Thanks for all the helpful replies. Two questions though:

      1) Is it true that you shouldn't have too many links from the homepage onto other pages as it will spread the page rank (link juice) too thin?

      2) Is there a limit as to how much interlinking should be done?

      3) Are breadcrumbs easy to setup in wordpress?

      Thanks again for all the input.

      Cheers
  • when you are creating site then consider onpage factor for getting better seo results
    1. Interlinking structure
    2. H1 to H6 formatting
    3. Image (Use png instead of jpg)
    4. Static URL (atleast for important once)
  • yes, keep a good ratio in/out links on your home page

    no, but make it based on site content and helpful for your readers

    no at all, see here: WordPress › Search for breadcrumbs « WordPress Plugins
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    • lol I hope you meant to say it is easy. Thanks for all the information.

      cheers
  • What are Breadcrumb links?
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    • Usually seen below masthead of page and above content, helps visitor see how page relates to overall structure of site, so

      Site/Category/SubCategory/Post

      Just found this today thanks to another warrior:
      Breadcrumbs - Webmaster Tools Help

      @junilerick
      As for the theme bleeding advice, I can only imagine this is based on some sprawling site where you have completely different unrelated topics. You want the interlinked pages to relate to the same topic so the links and anchor text all relate to the main keyword/s for the site. If you feel siloing would help and you're doing anything like niche marketing, breaking the site up into separate domains should help more.

      @Big__Lebowski
      Right on.
  • I don't see how a PNG image versus a JPG image has anything to do with SEO. If they are both the same size I doubt there is any issue.
  • In all honesty, I personally wouldn't worry about this. I think what Google likes is pages interlinking well with each other, but I wouldn't really worry about linking to not related pages. What is important is the anchor text TO that page. I.e. try to make it the keyword for the page you are linking to.

    So at the bottom of each of your pages, I would have something like

    Page 1 keyword | Page 2 keyword | Page 3 keyword | Page 4 keyword etc etc
  • I was under the impression that webmasters wanted to avoid siloing.

    In order for your pages to get crawled as much as possible, and share the internal link juice being passed throughout your site, you want your pages to be accessible from any part of your website with the minimum amount travel possible (whilst keeping internal links per page to a reasonable level ofcourse).

    If you silo heavily, it means large sections of your site will be ignoring eachother, thus removing the benefit of a strong internal linking strategy.
  • Here are few tips to make your website SEO friendly.

    1. Make url of the pages seo friendly eg: www.mysite.com/page.php?id=1
    seo friendly: www.mysite.com/information_on_google.php
    These are also referred as canonical URLs
    2. You should have the title tag, meta tag description.
    3. All the pages should utilize H1, h2, h3, b, strong, p, ul, li tags appropriately.
    4. You should get quality back links from your niche websites.
    5. Have good quality unique content.
    6. update them regularly.
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