Silo question

You're confused for sure If your keyword is cheap booze & your goal is writing 1,000 word articles with hopes of ranking your money page. Use product descriptions not articles for on-page content. The keyword cheap booze would be a keyword for an eCommerce site, not some keyword stuffed article directory.

The silo setup is straight forward, stay focused on the subject, remove all irrelevant clutter (internal links/text, misused <h> tags, etc...) & keep the internal links focused on the main keyword subject.

1. Navigation bar with cheap booze that goes to a page about cheap booze. A 1000+ word article because I want to rank this page in top 10 serps. Then add relevant articles beneath this page like www.domain.com/cheap-booze/booze-for sale and www.domain.com/cheap-booze/booze-shops. Then these 2 articles/blogs are linking to my overall page about cheap booze.

Dont create: www.domain.com/cheap-booze/booze-for sale and www.domain.com/cheap-booze/booze-shops.

... where booze is used twice. You're setting yourself for overoptimization.

Try: domain.com/cheap-booze/for-sale


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But to answer your question about how you want to do the linking: Just rank which ever page gets the most searches. For example, if 'cheap-booze' gets 1000 visitors, and 'cheep-booze-for-sale' gets 2000, send all the internal linking to the for sale page. And vice versa.

There have been couple of good threads on siloing. Forum search is probably still broken, so try the Google search.

OK, I have to admit I'm not at all sure what you are referring to regarding "sales page"

Siloing usually refers to a site architecture where you have a 3 or 4 levels deep setup

I build sites using 3 levels:
home page (primary search phrase)
silo landing pages (secondary search phrases)
article pages (tertiary search phrases)

You need a minimum of 3 silos landing pages, and a minimum of 5 articles per silo - so you're talking of about 20 pages when you add the mandatory pages such as privacy, contact, terms, etc.

In addition you need a navigation system that does not link any of the articles in a silo, to any articles in a different silo - i.e. the silos must be water-tight - this can be done with a dedicated wordpress silo plugin, if you use wordpress

It can also be done Wikipedia style - with no navigation menu - just in-content hyperlinks to the relevant pages - you can do this manually

I always use LSI keyword discovery - so here is an example of what you could have for the level 2 keywords:
cheap booze brands
cheap liquor
cheap alcohol
cheap booze online
cheap vodka
cheap booze cruise

You would then take each of the above, and find 5 sub-keywords of each - these would then be the article titles for each silo

This is far more complex than what you outlined - but this is the minimum for siloing effectively