SEO Professional - Hyderabad

SEO Professional

In my previous life as a Programer and HTML developer I loved to have a folder/directory for everything. While I’m not a organized person. I did like keeping my files structured in clearly labeled directories. So nesting directories 4 or 5 levels deep was common practice.

When I transitioned to an SEO Professional my ideas on structuring files and site architecture began to change and here is why. A flat site offers quick access to all the pages within the site. A minimal number of clicks are needed to find all the pages within your site,

usually no more than three clicks is ideal. According to the views of the search engines (SEs), less clicks mean higher importance. The view of the SEs are that more important information will be easier to reach. Home page information is the most important, one click from the home page is secondary information and two clicks is tertiary information and so forth.

Think of it like bodies of water. Your home page is the ocean and off of the home page are large rivers and then smaller rivers, then streams, then creeks and brooks and finally the smallest trickle of water is all that is left. Don’t let you products, services or information be at the end of the trickle, drying up eventually. Closer to the ocean is always better and that is how the search engines will rank your pages too.

I’ve seen some site place everything in the root folder and this isn’t good practice either. Structure your sites as to what makes sense, but be aware that more clicks can mean less viewers, both for search engine traffic and visitors on your site.

Labels: search engine optimization

posted by Unknown @ 12:03 AM