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SILO Structure Site Review

by mohdaftab
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Hello,

Please let me know is this website follows proper SILO structure or am I missing something please? My Silo Website

Thank you
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  • Profile picture of the author Joe Stewart
    Originally Posted by mohdaftab View Post

    Hello,

    Please let me know is this website follows proper SILO structure or am I missing something please? My Silo Website

    Thank you
    It depends on the type of site that you want to create, but if you're planning to build an authority site that's pretty much it.

    Most people use Wordpress these days, as I do, but they use the category feature within Wordpress. I don't. I take the time to actually create a "home page" for each of my categories. I'll write an introduction about the product brand, general topic, etc and then write around 150-250 words about each item I'm reviewing within the designated category. Yes, the pages can get pretty long if you're promoting multiple items within a category, but it works. It also provides a much better user experience, in my opinion.

    I've built a handful of authority sites over the past several years, but never had much consistent luck with them staying ranked until I followed the advice of a friend I met that bought one of my sites and was very good at SEO, and following Erica Stone's "Extreme Review" product.

    Of course, there are no guarantees of success since the search engines are privately owned, though some here have done very well. I stopped focusing on SEO a long time ago because of the constant changes. Flush one month and broke the next. Not for me anymore.

    Still, I just happened to check two sites that I sold (2 and 4 years ago) a few months back and then again this morning and although I didn't check every keyword, every product review on the site that I did check was still ranking in the top-10 in Google for that keyword phrase. The guy that bought it hasn't touched it at all either!

    Actually, the friend I referred to that bought my first authority site gave that site a makeover and it's now ranking in the top-10 for multiple buyer keywords on Bing - including the primary keyword, which is currently #1.

    So you can use that method, check out Erica's book or go to a guy like Dennis Gaskill, who's much more knowledgable than I'll ever be about SEO, and ask him to guide you.

    Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author mohdaftab
      Hello Mr Joe Stewart, Thank you very much for the reply. I am trying to do it the same way as you have described. I am ready to get this started as soon as possible.

      Thank you
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      • Profile picture of the author Joe Stewart
        Originally Posted by mohdaftab View Post

        Hello Mr Joe Stewart, Thank you very much for the reply. I am trying to do it the same way as you have described. I am ready to get this started as soon as possible.

        Thank you

        You're welcome. Also, internal links are very, very important! When I said this below I didn't tell you about linking out from each category page.

        Most people use Wordpress these days, as I do, but they use the category feature within Wordpress. I don't. I take the time to actually create a "home page" for each of my categories. I'll write an introduction about the product brand, general topic, etc and then write around 150-250 words about each item I'm reviewing within the designated category. Yes, the pages can get pretty long if you're promoting multiple items within a category, but it works. It also provides a much better user experience, in my opinion.
        Link from each description on each category page directly to every review article in that category. Use the exact product names in the links, but try not to make them exact. Google is frowning on exact match links now, so rather than say "Acme 123-247 high speed blender" say something like "read more about my personal experience with the Acme 123-247 high speed blender" and link it all to the review page.

        I also link from each review page back to the category page AND to the home page, but I use different product or niche related text for each. That way it looks more natural rather than having 50+ links (example) that are all the same. Make sense?

        Anyway, good luck!

        Joe
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        • Profile picture of the author mohdaftab
          This is very helpful and it does make a lot of sense.

          Thank you very much again.
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          • Profile picture of the author HeatMap
            mohdaftab,

            A few pointers...
            You've got links at the bottom of your posts to category archives and date archives.

            If you're doing strict siloing (ie plugging all the leaks) you should think about removing those.

            Also if your site is going to be go to multiple level eventually maybe think about breadcrumbs too.
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  • Profile picture of the author mohdaftab
    @Stuart Wider,

    Thank you very much for mentioning that. Would it help if I add noindex to category and archive pages?
    Also just to confirm you are talking about this line under the post right?
    This entry was posted in Silo 1 on August 22, 2014.

    I have to remove this line and add noindex to category and archive pages that should be good right?

    Best regards,
    Muhammad Aftab
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