Silo structure in Wordpress

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I've heard that to have a silo structure in Wordpress, you need to link posts within a category to each other.

When you make a post in Wordpress, at top and bottom of the post it has a link to the next post and the previous post. Is this sufficient enough for the linking you need to do for each post to each other?

One problem is that it has a link to the next and previous post, but links are supposed to be only to posts in the same category. Is there a way to prevent Wordpress from showing links to posts which aren't in the same category?
#search engine optimization #silo #structure #wordpress

  • Your right you have to get rid of that in order to keep your category silo's tight. I just got started with siloing so I'm still learning. Yukon is the go to guy in this type of architecture. Search his posting's because he's got a ton of info on this.

    So to answer your question yes there is a simple way, I just did this the other day. WordPress › Support ยป how to remove the links to next post and previous post ?

    Follow Wex's directions but be careful because if you have the latest wordpress then it looks a little different because that thread is 2 years old but still works..... you should be able to do it.

    You have to go into your wordpress dashboard>appearance>edit> (single post) single.php file.

    I copied the whole file into notebook in case it didn't work so I could just add the file back as it was before it was edited. You have to edit the file by deleting a few lines.
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    • To have a silo structure in Wordpress, is it important to remove the links to the next and previous post or can they be left there?
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    • Here is good article that helped me a lot How to Theme and Silo Your WordPress Blog
    • Nice informative. Its really helpful for me. I really trying hard to solve this problem before. Now i can do this.
  • Thanks for the link. Is it important to use /%category%/%postname%/ as the permalink structure? I read a thread recently which says that its OK to just use /%postname%/

    Is that correct or not?

    When you link your articles to the category landing page, should the anchor text be the keyword you want the category landing page for rank for or would that be deemed as over optimization?
  • My question would be - why wouldn't you want them linked together. Remember, whether hyperlinked or Silo structure, inter-linking content skyrockets your 'onsite' time and actually helps bounce rates.
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    • As i've already set the permalink structure as /%postname%/ would it be too late to change it now to /%category%/%postname%/

      For example, would it cause the search engines to not know the correct url.

      From what tinknocker said, if they are linked to together by default as posts are in wordpress then it leaks your silo.
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  • Thanks I was not aware of this before.
  • My bad Cooler1 I didn't get back to you. For my particular strat (wolfmmiii), no silo structure. The only thing if anything, I'll add some kind of contextual link to another part of my page within the content.

    For ex:

    adslkajkldsfkldsfzklsdfzlkdsf lkfjlkdszfjzkldsfjkldszfjkldszfjkldszfj zklsdfj zklsfj kldszfj lkf the (link) is blah blah bla halbhah zldfzslfkjdszf .


    And that will lead to another page whether it be another affiliate /review or just random information.
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    • How broad is your site?

      My site is covering niches which are unrelated i.e. toasters and watches. Would I need to use a silo structure for a site this broad?
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  • Yes almost every theme allows you to hide next post previous posts links, also its not mandatory to link to same category posts, you can link to any category post within your site, its your internal linking structure that is important for both users and spiders
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    Silo structure in Wordpress

    I've heard that to have a silo structure in Wordpress, you need to link posts within a category to each other. When you make a post in Wordpress, at top and bottom of the post it has a link to the next post and the previous post. Is this sufficient enough for the linking you need to do for each post to each other?